GREATER ROCKFORD ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY v. SHELL OIL CO.

No. 90-3119.

777 F.Supp. 690 (1991)

GREATER ROCKFORD ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY CORP., et al., Plaintiffs, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Springfield Division.

October 28, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendell W. Wright, Wright & Wright, Danville, Ill., Bob F. Wright, Domengeaux & Wright, Lafayette, La., Lloyd W. Gathings, Gathings & Davis, Birmingham, Ala., Gregg R. Potvin, Taylor, Thiemann & Aitken, Washington, D.C., Wayne M. Liao, Spiegel, Liao & Kagay, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Peter M. Sfikas, Peterson & Ross, Chicago, Ill., Carl D. Haggard, A.M. Minotti, Shell Oil Co., Houston, Tex., for defendant Shell Oil Co.

James C. Kearns, Edward M. Wagner, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Urbana, Ill., John H. Stroh, Dan D. Sandman, Findlay, Ohio, Ronald Teeple, John Leonard, DeFrees & Fiske, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Marathon Petroleum Co.

Thomas A. Gottschalk, David A. Rammelt, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., Robert E. Gillespie, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Springfield, Ill., John Jenkins, Gunn & Hickman, Danville, Ill., Martin J. Keating, Gerard J. Carpency, Michael E. Rigney, J. Andrew Langan, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., Amy J. Berenson, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for defendant Amoco Oil Co.

Thomas W. Kelty, John H. Long, Pfeifer & Kelty, P.C., Springfield, Ill., Harry P. Davis, Jr., John E. Bailey, David L. Martindale, Houston, Tex., Joseph M. Burton, San Francisco, Cal., Keith E. Parks, Mark A. Cervenka, David L. Ream, Chevron Corp., Houston, Tex., for defendant Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

Gary R. Lietz, Flynn, Palmer, Tague & Lietz, Champaign, Ill., Otis Pratt Pearsall, Bruce R. Kelly, Robert C. Mason, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York City, Donald A. Brigh, Dean M. Harris, Atlantic Richfield Co., Ronald C. Redcay, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, Los Angeles, Cal., Philip H. Curtis, Arnold & Porter, New York City, for defendant Atlantic Richfield Co.

Joseph Dattilo, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant B.P. America.

C.W. Dukes, David J. Ryan, Dukes, Martin, Helm & Ryan, Danville, Ill., H. Blair White, Nathan Eimer, Krista Edwards, Andrew G. Klevorn, Sidley & Austin, Thomas Bush, Jr., Saunders & Monroe, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Citgo Petroleum Corp.

Thomas Jackson, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, Tex., Larry Douglas, San Antonio, Tex., for defendant Diamond Shamrock R & M, Inc.

Robert G. Abrams, Joanne E. Caruso, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C., for defendant Exxon Co. USA

Patrick J. Ahern, Jeffery M. Cross, Ross & Hardies, Chicago, Ill., Charles F. Rice, Dennis Wilson, Mobil Oil Corp., New York City, for defendant Mobil Corp.


OPINION

RICHARD MILLS, District Judge:

Antitrust case — 17 Plaintiffs — 11 Defendants — 69 lawyers — and literally a half-ton of pleadings.

First of all, Plaintiffs' counsel accepted this case with a foreseeable conflict.

But Defendants waited until 3 years into this major antitrust action before moving to disqualify Plaintiffs' lead counsel (and his firm) on the grounds that Defendants intend to call him as a...

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