IN RE BULK POPCORN ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. 3-89-710.

792 F.Supp. 650 (1992)

In re BULK POPCORN ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division.

March 26, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel D. Heins, W. Joseph Bruckner, Opperman, Heins & Paquin, Minneapolis, Minn., Lead Counsel for all plaintiffs.

Samuel D. Heins, W. Joseph Bruckner, Opperman, Heins & Paquin, Minneapolis, Minn., Warren Rubin, Gross, Sklar & Metzger, Philadelphia, Pa., Guido Saveri, Saveri & Saveri, San Francisco, Cal., Gary L. Specks, Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, Ill., Jerry B. Chariton, Larry S. Keiser, Chariton & Keiser, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., for Arzente Family Corp. and Chocolate Popcorn Co., plaintiffs.

Samuel D. Heins, W. Joseph Bruckner, Opperman, Heins & Paquin, Minneapolis, Minn., Kenton C. Granger, Niewald, Waldeck, Norris & Brown, Kansas City, Mo., for Zarda Bros. Dairy, Inc., plaintiff.

Donald R. Johnston, Briggs & Morgan, Minneapolis, Minn., Michael D. Hausfeld, Ann C. Yahner, Cohen, Milstein & Hausfeld, Washington, D.C., Ann M. Spencer, Wagner, Johnston & Falconer, Samuel D. Heins, W. Joseph Bruckner, Opperman, Heins & Paquin, Minneapolis, Minn., for Michael J. Iannacone, Bankruptcy Trustee for Hancock-Nelson Mercantile Co., on behalf of bankruptcy estate of Hancock-Nelson Mercantile Co. Inc., and a class of all others similarly situated, plaintiff.

Jack L. Chestnut, Karl L. Cambronne, Chestnut & Brooks, Minneapolis, Minn., for Old Dutch Foods, Inc., plaintiff.

Charles H. Johnson, Johnson Law Office, St. Paul, Minn., for Michael McPherson, plaintiff.

John A. Cochrane, Cochrane & Bresnahan, St. Paul, Minn., Howard I. Langer, Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, Pa., J. Garrett Kendrick, Long Beach, Cal., Lawrence G. Papale, Cannata & Papale, Francis O. Scarpulla, Scarpulla & Scarpulla, San Francisco, Cal., for Syufy Enterprises, plaintiff.

John A. Cochrane, Cochrane & Bresnahan, Mark Reinhardt, St. Paul, Minn., for Ogren Popcorn, Inc. and Preferred Food Concepts, Inc., plaintiffs.

Alan H. Maclin, James J. Long, Donald R. Johnston, Briggs & Morgan, St. Paul, Minn., for Ellis Popcorn Co., defendant.

Robert DeMay, Allen Saeks, Leonard, Street & Deinard, Randall Smith, Jacobson, Stromme & Harwood, Minneapolis, Minn., James H. Hamm, III, Robert D. Moreland, Thomas M. Shoaff, Baker, Daniels & Shoaff, Fort Wayne, Ind., for Weaver Popcorn Co., defendant.

G. Marc Whitehead, Bruce H. Little, Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Minneapolis, Minn., Theodore R. Tetzlaff, Richard P. Steinken, Nina Vinik, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for Popcorn Institute, defendant.

Robert J. Hennessey, Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Minneapolis, Minn., Merrill S. Schell, M. Stephen Pitt, Debra D. Poulin, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, Ky., for Gettelfinger Popcorn, defendant.

Eugene M. Warlich, Alan I. Silver, Marc J. Manderscheid, Gary M. Hansen, Doherty, Rumble & Butler, St. Paul, Minn., for Wyandot Corp., defendant.

Anne V. Simonett, Norman R. Carpenter, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Curtice Burns Foods, defendant.

Robert R. Weinstine, Steven C. Tourek, Gina M. Follen, Darron C. Knutson, Winthrop & Weinstine, St. Paul, Minn., Brooks F. Poley, Zelle & Larson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Golden Valley Microwave Foods, Inc. and Vogel Popcorn Co., defendants.

Timothy E. Carr, Carr & Mussman, San Francisco, Cal., for George Brown, defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MAGNUSON, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This matter is before the court upon defendants' motion for summary judgment, or, in the alternative, partial decertification of the class. For the following reasons, defendants' motion is denied in its entirety. The background facts of this case have been set forth in the court's order dated November 29, 1991. The court incorporates additional facts as they relate to this motion.

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