IN RE COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS, ETC.

No. MDL-150-WPG.

523 F.Supp. 1116 (1981)

In re COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

September 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alison B. Swan, Chief Counsel, Richard A. Alcorn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Antitrust Div., Phoenix, Ariz., for State of Arizona.

Atty. Gen. George Deukmejian by Michael Ivan Spiegel, Wayne M. Liao, William S. Clark, Charles M. Kagay, Deputy Attys. Gen., Dept. of Justice, State of Cal., San Francisco, Cal., Peter Shack, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, State of Cal., Los Angeles, Cal., for State of California.

James Smith, Atty. Gen., by Jerome W. Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, Fla., Stephen L. Dunne, Del Mar, Cal., for State of Florida.

Nancy K. Nakata, Asst. Atty. Gen., Antitrust Div., Salem, Or., for State of Oregon.

Ken Eikenberry, Atty. Gen. by John R. Ellis, James Kirkham Johns, Jon P. Ferguson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Consumer Protection and Antitrust Div., State of Wash., Seattle, Wash., for State of Washington.

Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York City and Los Angeles, Cal. by Ronald C. Redcay, Los Angeles, Cal., Otis Pratt Pearsall, Philip H. Curtis, New York City, Donald A. Bright, Associate Gen. Counsel, Howard S. Fredman, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Atlantic Richfield Co.

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch by Robert G. Russell, Jr., Paul B. Wells, San Diego, Cal., for Cities Service Co.-Cities Service Oil Co.

Latham & Watkins by Philip F. Belleville, Los Angeles, Cal., for Conoco, Inc.

McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea by Philip A. Verleger, David A. Destino, Los Angeles, Cal., Robert L. Norris, Houston, Tex., for defendant Exxon Corp.

Dechert Price & Rhoads by Robert A. Cohen, New York City, Philip J. Englund, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Getty Oil Co.

Harry P. Davis, Jr., Barton D. Whitman, Houston, Tex., for defendant Gulf Oil Co.-U. S.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, Washington, D. C., and New York City by Andrew J. Kilcarr, Washington, D. C., and Stephen D. Houck, New York City, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton by Joseph F. Coyne, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Mobil Oil Corp.

Sullivan & Cromwell by John W. Dickey, Richard Menaker, New York City, Adams, Duque & Hazeltine by John H. Brinsley, Robert M. Mitchell, Los Angeles, Cal., Neal Lehman, Bartlesville, Okl., for defendant Phillips Petroleum Co.

Howrey & Simon by William Simon, William O'Brien, Washington, D. C., Robert J. Decker, Houston, Tex., for defendant Shell Oil Co.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro by Richard J. MacLaury, Robert A. Mittelstaedt, San Francisco, Cal., for Standard Oil Co. of California.

M. J. Keating, Chicago, Ill., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker by Oliver F. Green, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana).

Payne, Morehouse, Shafer & Harlow by Paul C. Shafer, Jr., Fairfield, Conn., for Standard Oil Co. (Ohio).

Robert M. Dubbs, Radnor, Pa., Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz by John G. Harkins, Martha Hargrove, Philadelphia, Pa., for Sun Oil Co.

C. F. Kauzlauskas, White Plains, N. Y., Leslie C. Randall, Los Angeles, Cal., for Texaco, Inc.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison by John Sparks, San Francisco, Cal., E. A. McFadden, Robert G. Pott, Los Angeles, Cal., for Union Oil Co.

Blecher, Collins & Hoecker by Gary W. Hoecker, Los Angeles, Cal., for City of Long Beach.

Stephen B. Yoken, San Francisco, Cal., for McGraw-Hill.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

WILLIAM P. GRAY, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in these consolidated antitrust actions against several major oil companies are the Attorneys General of the States of Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon and Washington. They have filed motions for the certification of a plaintiff subclass consisting of all natural persons* residing in their respective states who have purchased motor gasoline at...

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