UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC.

Nos. 84-3242 to 84-3244, 84-3253 and 84-3266 to 84-3268.

750 F.2d 1183 (1984)

The UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC., the Howard P. Foley Company, Lord Electric Company, Inc., Sargent Electric Company, E.C. Ernst, Inc., Tri-City Electric Company, Inc., Joseph J. Rodgers, Paul E. Arbogast, Frederic B. Sargent, Ralph D. Vryenhoek, James L. Oesterle. Appeal of SARGENT ELECTRIC COMPANY. The UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC., the Howard P. Foley Company, Lord Electric Company, Inc., Sargent Electric Company, E.C. Ernst, Inc., Tri-City Electric Company, Inc., Joseph J. Rodgers, Paul E. Arbogast, Frederic B. Sargent, Ralph D. Vryenhoek, James L. Oesterle. Appeal of Frederic B. SARGENT. The UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC., the Howard P. Foley Company, Lord Electric Company, Inc., Sargent Electric Company, E.C. Ernst, Inc., Tri-City Electric Company, Inc., Joseph J. Rodgers, Paul E. Arbogast, Frederic B. Sargent, Ralph D. Vryenhoek, James L. Oesterle. Appeal of Ralph D. VRYENHOEK. The UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC., the Howard P. Foley Company, Lord Electric Company, Inc., Sargent Electric Company, E.C. Ernst, Inc., Tri-City Electric Company, Inc., Joseph J. Rodgers, Paul E. Arbogast, Frederic B. Sargent, Ralph D. Vryenhoek, James L. Oesterle. Appeal of Paul E. ARBOGAST. The UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC., the Howard P. Foley Company, Lord Electric Company, Inc., Sargent Electric Company, E.C. Ernst, Inc., Tri-City Electric Company, Inc., Joseph J. Rodgers, Paul E. Arbogast, Frederic B. Sargent, Ralph D. Vryenhoek, James L. Oesterle. Appeal of Joseph J. RODGERS. The UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC., the Howard P. Foley Company, Lord Electric Company, Inc., Sargent Electric Company, E.C. Ernst, Inc., Tri-City Electric Company, Inc., Joseph J. Rodgers, Paul E. Arbogast, Frederic B. Sargent, Ralph D. Vryenhoek, James L. Oesterle. Appeal of LORD ELECTRIC COMPANY. The UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC., the Howard P. Foley Company, Lord Electric Company, Inc., Sargent Electric Company, E.C. Ernst, Inc., Tri-City Electric Company, Inc., Joseph J. Rodgers, Paul E. Arbogast, Frederic B. Sargent, Ralph D. Vryenhoek, James L. Oesterle. Appeal of FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INCORPORATED.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 10, 1984.

As Amended December 19, 1984.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 4 and January 14, 1985.

Certiorari Denied March 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrea Limmer (Argued), John J. Powers, III, Antitrust Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Jon Hogue, Titus, Marcus & Shapira, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant Lord Elec. Co., Jay Topkis (Argued), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for appellant in No. 84-3267.

Norman H. Seidler (Argued), Gordon B. Spivack, Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, for appellant Fischbach & Moore, Inc.

Melvin Schwartz (Argued), Baskin & Steingut, P.A., Boca Raton, Fla., for appellant Sargent Elec. Co.

Harold Gondelman (Argued), Gondelman, Baxter, McVerry, Smith, Yatch & Trimm, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellants Frederic B. Sargent and Ralph D. Vryenhoek.

William M. Wycoff (Argued), Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant Paul E. Arbogast.

H. Yale Gutnick (Argued), Strassburger, McKenna, Messer, Shilobod & Gutnick, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant Joseph J. Rodgers.

Before ALDISERT, Chief Judge, and HUNTER and WEIS, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied in Nos. 84-3242, 84-3243, 84-3244 and 84-3266 January 4 and January 14, 1985.

Certiorari Denied March 4, 1985. See 105 S.Ct. 1397.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Chief Judge.

Three principal issues are presented in this appeal from sentences imposed on a guilty verdict in a criminal antitrust prosecution: whether the proof at trial varied from the indictment charging a single, continuing

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