IN RE WHEAT RAIL FREIGHT RATE ANTITRUST LITIGATION

MDL No. 534.

579 F.Supp. 510 (1983)

In re WHEAT RAIL FREIGHT RATE ANTITRUST LITIGATION. This Document Relates to: Pillsbury Co., No. 82 C 6054; General Mills, Inc., No. 83 C 834; DCA Food Industries, Inc., No. 83 C 835; Pillsbury Co., No. 83 C 1450.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

December 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Wegener, Minneapolis, Minn., for Pillsbury.

Ross L. Thorfinnson, Hopkins, Minn., for General Mills.

James R. Scoggin, Hopkins, Minn., for DCA Food Industries.

Laurence Z. Shiekman, Deborah F. Cohen, Philip H. Lebowitz, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., for Consol. Rail.

Charles C. Rettberg, Jr., Harry N. Babcock, Paul R. Hitchcock, Rachel E. Geiersbach, Cleveland, Ohio, for Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

PRENTICE H. MARSHALL, District Judge.

This memorandum opinion concerns plaintiffs' motions to dismiss counterclaims filed by several of the defendants in these antitrust actions. The defendants ("railroads") are railroads over which the plaintiffs ("shippers") have shipped wheat and wheat products. The railroads1 allege that they are among the victims of collusive...

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