IN RE WYOMING TIGHT SANDS ANTITRUST CASES

Civ. A. No. 85-2349-S.

695 F.Supp. 1109 (1988)

In re WYOMING TIGHT SANDS ANTITRUST CASES.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

Opinion on Motion for Certification June 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Basil W. Kelsey, Frank B.W. McCollum, Terry W. Schackmann, Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne, Overland Park, Kan.

Ralph Foster, Vice President & Gen. Counsel, John P. DeCoursey, Kansas Gas & Elec. Co., Wichita, Kan.

Robert T. Stephan, Atty. Gen., Topeka, Kan.

Thomas Greenan, Ferguson & Burdell, Seattle, Wash.

Jerome T. Wolf, Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne, Kansas City, Mo.

Randolph G. Willis, Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas, Olathe, Kan.

J. Eugene Balloun, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Overland Park, Kan.

Mick Lerner, Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, Overland Park, Kan.

Wayne Hundley, Deputy Atty. Gen., Chief, Consumer Protection & Antitrust Div., Topeka, Kan.

Donald D. Barry, Topeka, Kan.

Stephen P. Dees, Robert J. Hammer, Farmland Industries, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.

Jack C. Chestnut, Chestnut & Brooks, Minneapolis, Minn.

Douglas E. Nordlinger, Douglas G. Robinson, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C.

Fred H. Bartlit, Jr., David M. Stryker, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill.

John T. Schmidt, Jane J. Welch, Mark Pennington, C. Kevin Morrison, Margaret A. Swimmer, Mary J. Rounds, Elizabeth Head, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Collingsworth & Nelson, Inc., Tulsa, Okl.

Lawrence M. Berkowitz, Frank L. Sallee, Matthew J. Verschelden, Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, Kansas City, Mo.

Darrel A. Kelsey, Ronald A. Skoler, Christian P. Mai, CSG Exploration Co., Tulsa, Okl.

Martin J. Keating, Chicago, Ill.

Colvin A. Peterson, Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas, Kansas City, Mo.

William L. Webster, Terry C. Allen, Shugart, Thomson & Kilroy, Jefferson City, Mo.

R. Lawrence Ward, W. Terrence Kilroy, Russell S. Jones, Jr., G. Adolph Schmidt, II, Shugart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, Mo.

Anthony Rupp, Shugart, Thomson & Kilroy, Overland Park, Kan.

Jerry M. Gross, Amoco Corp., Chicago, Ill.

William G. Levi, David R. Schlee, W. Woody Schlosser, Smith, Gill, Fisher & Butts, P.C., Kansas City, Mo.

L.K. Smith, John A. Burkhardt, Boone, Smith, Davis & Hurst, Tulsa, Okl.

John K. Rosenberg, Gen. Counsel, The Kansas Power & Light Co., Topeka, Kan.

Stan P. Doyle, James C. Thomas, Doyle & Harris, Tulsa, Okl.

Cloyd R. Mellott, Dale Hershey, D. Richard Funk, Mary K. Austin, Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, Pittsburgh, Pa.

William H. Sanders, Floyd Finch, Jr., Katharine Bunn, Sally Burger, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Kansas City, Mo.

James D. Griffin, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Overland Park, Kan.

Randall B. Palmer, UtiliCorp United, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.

Thomas H. Brill, Deborah Farrar, Peterson & Farrar, Shawnee Mission, Kan.

David P. Mudrick, Director, Legal Services, The Kansas Power and Light Co., Topeka, Kan.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SAFFELS, District Judge.

These consolidated actions concern allegations that certain suppliers of natural gas conspired to fix inflated prices in violation of the federal antitrust laws. Several distinct categories of plaintiffs are suing several distinct categories of defendants. The issue presently before the court is ultimately one of standing: Who are the proper parties to assert the antitrust claims?

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