IN RE WHEAT RAIL FREIGHT RATE ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. MDL 534.

579 F.Supp. 517 (1984)

In re WHEAT RAIL FREIGHT RATE ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

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

February 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross L. Thorfinnson, Perbix, Harvey & Thorfinnson, P.A., Hopkins, Minn., Robert J. Fulgency, Sr. Associate Counsel, General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiff General Mills, Inc.

James R. Scoggin, Perbix, Harvey & Thorfinnson, P.A., Hopkins, Minn., for plaintiff DCA Food Industries, Inc.

Richard P. Campbell, Anthony S. DiVincenzo, Campbell & DiVincenzo, Chicago, Ill., David Brezina, John Brezina, Burton Ehrlich, Brezina & Buckingham, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs Little Crow Milling Co., Inc. and Midstate Mills, Inc.

Thomas C. Dorsey, American Short Line R.R. Ass'n, Washington, D.C., for defendant American Short Line R.R. Ass'n.

Roland W. Donnem, Charles C. Rettberg, Jr., Patricia Vail, Chessie System Railroads, Cleveland, Ohio, James R. Gannon, Lewis, Overbeck & Furman, Chicago, Ill., for defendants Baltimore and Ohio R. Co., Inc., Chesapeake and Ohio R. Co., Inc. and Chicago South Shore & South Bend R.R.

Bruce B. Wilson, Margaret W. Weiner, Consolidated Rail Corp., Laurence Z. Shiekman, Deborah F. Cohen, Philip H. Lebowitz, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., Max Wildman, Jerald P. Esrick, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Consol. R. Corp.

Kinga LaChapelle, Delaware & Hudson R. Co., Albany, N.Y., Thomas A. Donovan, Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Johnson & Hutchison, Pittsburgh, Pa., Karla J. Letsche, Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Hill, Christopher & Phillips, Washington, D.C., James G. Heiring, James H. Ryan, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Delaware and Hudson Ry. Co.

W. Gerald Thursby, Clifton Lake, David C. Gustman, Rooks, Pitts, Fullagar & Poust, Chicago, Ill., Kenneth C. Anderson, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Washington, D.C., for defendant Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Ry. Co.

John C. Danielson, Grand Trunk Western R. Co., Detroit, Mich., Erwin C. Heininger, William J. Reifman, Daniel D. Beckel, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Grand Trunk Western R. Co.

Duane M. Kelley, James A. Vroman, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Illinois Central Gulf R. Co.

Wandaleen Poynter, Seaboard Coast Line R. Co., Jacksonville, Fla., for defendants Louisville & Nashville R.R. and Seaboard Coast Line R. Co.

James R. Gannon, Lewis, Overbeck & Furman, Chicago, Ill., for defendants Louisville & Nashville R., Seaboard Coast Line R. Co. and Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. Co.

James E. Sykes, Commerce Counsel, Mo. Pacific R. Co., St. Louis, Mo., James H. Durkin, Commerce Counsel, Mo. Pacific R. Co., Chicago, Ill., for defendant Missouri Pacific R. Co.

Richard J. Flynn, G. Paul Moates, R. Merinda Wilson, Stephen S. Hill, Sidley & Austin, Washington, D.C., for defendants Illinois Terminal R. Co. and Norfolk and Western Ry. Co., Inc.

Kirk B. Johnson, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for defendants Illinois Terminal R. Co., Norfolk and Western Ry. Co., Inc. and Toledo, Peoria & Western R. Co.

John M. Clifford, Stephen A. Trimble, Hamilton & Hamilton, Washington, D.C., Urchie B. Ellis, Richmond, Fredericksburg, & Potomac R. Co., Richmond, Va., for defendant Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. Co.

John M. Nannes, Paul J. Kaleta, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C., for defendants Traffic Executive Ass'n, Eastern Railroads, and Eastern Railroads Ass'n.

Richard E. Weicher, Weston Marsh, Santa Fe Industries, Inc., Chicago, Ill., for defendant Toledo, Peoria & Western R. Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

PRENTICE H. MARSHALL, District Judge.

This multidistrict antitrust litigation involves wheat rail freight rates. The plaintiffs, shippers of wheat and wheat products, allege that the defendant railroads violated Sherman Act § 1, 15 U.S.C. § 1 (1976) by fixing the price of rail freight rates for wheat and wheat products without following the procedures required to exempt their conduct...

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