IN RE PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION

MDL No. 150-WPG.

656 F.Supp. 1296 (1986)

In re COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

November 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alison B. Swan, Chief Counsel, Antitrust Div., Office of the Attorney General, Phoenix, Ariz., on behalf of the State of Ariz.

Office of the Attorney General John Van de Kamp by William S. Clark, Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas P. Dove, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, State of Cal., San Francisco, Cal., Sanford Gruskin, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, State of Cal., Los Angeles, Cal., and Spiegel, Cutler, Liao & Kagay by Michael I. Spiegel, et al., San Francisco, Cal., on behalf of State of Cal.

James Smith, Atty. Gen. by Jerome W. Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, Fla., and Larry H. Evans, Chief, Antitrust Section, State of Fla., Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, Fla., and Stephen L. Dunne, Del Mar, Cal., on behalf of State of Fla.

Dave Frohnmayer, Atty. Gen. by Richard L. Casell, Chief Counsel, Antitrust Div., Salem, Or., on behalf of State of Or.

Ken Eikenberry, Atty. Gen. by John R. Ellis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Consumer Protection and Antitrust Div., State of Wash., Seattle, Wash., on behalf of State of Wash.

Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York City, by Otis Pratt Pearsall, Philip H. Curtis, Bruce R. Kelly, Linda Trummer-Napolitano, and Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, by Ronald C. Redcay, Matthew T. Heartney, and Donald A. Bright, Associate Gen. Counsel, Howard S. Fredman, Thomas H. Reilly, Legal Dept., Atlantic Richfield Co., Los Angeles, Cal., on behalf of Atlantic Richfield Co.

McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Los Angeles, Cal., by Philip A. Verleger, David A. Destino, and Charles W. Matthews, House Counsel, Exxon Co. U.S.A., Houston, Tex., on behalf of Exxon Corp.

John E. Bailey, Harry P. Davis, Jr., Law Dept., Houston, Tex., on behalf of Chevron U.S.A. (Gulf Oil Co.).

Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C. by Andrew J. Kilcarr, Maureen O'Bryon, and Charles F. Rice, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Charles B. Straus, III, Counsel, New York City, on behalf of Mobil Oil Corp.

Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C. by William Simon, William O'Brien, Robert M. Bruskin, and William Winters, Robert J. Decker, Corporate Law/Sec, Houston, Tex., on behalf of Shell Oil Co.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., by Robert P. Taylor, Robert A. Mittelstaedt, Roderick M. Thompson, and Smathers & Thompson, Miami, Fla. by David Batcheller, on behalf of Standard Oil Co. of Cal.

Leslie C. Randall, Texaco, Inc., Los Angeles, Cal., and R.D. Wilson, G. Kenneth Handley, Texaco, Inc., White Plains, N.Y., and Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City by Barry Wilner, Aton Arbisser, on behalf of Texaco, Inc.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal. by John Sparks, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison by Darryl Snider, and E.A. McFadden, Harold E. Zahner, House Counsel, Union Oil Co., and Robert G. Pott, Asst. Counsel, Union Oil Co., Los Angeles, Cal., on behalf of Union Oil Co.


GRAY, District Judge.

In this long pending litigation, the Attorneys General of the plaintiff States charge the defendant major oil companies with violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The contentions are that these defendants conspired to fix the retail prices of gasoline, to create in this country shortages, either actual or purported, of petroleum products, and to refrain from competing with each other for contracts for the sale...

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