FEDERAL-MOGUL CORP. v. U.S.

Nos. 92-06-00422, 92-07-00506 to 92-07-00509, 92-07-00518 and 92-07-00519.

809 F.Supp. 102 (1992)

FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, The Torrington Company, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The UNITED STATES, Defendant, SKF USA Inc., SKF France S.A., SKF GmbH, SKF Industrie, S.p.A., SKF (U.K.) Limited and SKF Sverige, AB; FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schafer KGaA, FAG Cuscinetti SpA, FAG (UK) Limited, Barden Corporation (UK) Limited, FAG Bearings Corporation and Barden Precision Bearings Corporation; RHP Bearings and RHP Bearings Inc.; Peer Bearing Company; Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd. and Koyo Corporation of U.S.A., Defendants-Intervenors. FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, The Torrington Company, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The UNITED STATES, Defendant, SKF USA Inc. and SKF Sverige, AB, Defendants-Intervenors. FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, The Torrington Company, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The UNITED STATES, Defendant, SKF USA Inc. and SKF Industrie, S.p.A., Defendants-Intervenors. FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, The Torrington Company, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The UNITED STATES, Defendant, NTN Bearing Corporation of America, American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation and NTN Corporation; Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd. and Koyo Corporation of U.S.A., Defendants-Intervenors. FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, The Torrington Company, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The UNITED STATES, Defendant, SKF USA Inc. and SKF France S.A., Defendants-Intervenors. FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, The Torrington Company, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The UNITED STATES, Defendant, SKF USA Inc. and SKF GmbH; NTN Bearing Corporation of America and NTN Kugellagerfabrik (Deutschland) GmbH, Defendants-Intervenors. FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, The Torrington Company, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The UNITED STATES, Defendant, SKF USA Inc. and SKF (U.K.) Limited, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States Court of International Trade.

November 5, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick L. Ikenson, P.C., Frederick L. Ikenson, J. Eric Nissley, Joseph A. Perna, V and Larry Hampel, Washington, DC, for plaintiff Federal-Mogul Corp.

Stewart and Stewart, Eugene L. Stewart, Terence P. Stewart, James R. Cannon, Jr., Wesley K. Caine, and Robert A. Weaver, Washington, DC, for plaintiff-intervenor The Torrington Co.

Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., David M. Cohen, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Marc E. Montalbine (Stephen J. Claeys, Craig R. Giesze and Dean A. Pinkert, Attorney-Advisors, Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Admin., U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, DC, of counsel), for defendant.

Howrey & Simon, Herbert C. Shelley, Alice A. Kipel, Juliana M. Cofrancesco and Thomas J. Trendl, Washington, DC, for defendants-intervenors SKF USA Inc., SKF France S.A., SKF GmbH, SKF Industrie, S.p.A., SKF (U.K.) Ltd. and SKF Sverige, AB.

Covington & Burling, Harvey M. Applebaum and David R. Grace, Washington, DC, for defendants-intervenors RHP Bearings and RHP Bearings Inc.

Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, John M. Gurley and Lindsay B. Meyer, Washington, DC, for defendant-intervenor Peer Bearing Co.

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Peter O. Suchman, Neil R. Ellis and T. George Davis, Washington, DC, for defendants-intervenors Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd. and Koyo Corp. of U.S.A.

Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz & Silverman, Max F. Schutzman and Andrew B. Schroth, New York City, for defendants-intervenors FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schafer KGaA, FAG Cuscinetti SpA, FAG (UK) Ltd., Barden Corp. (UK) Limited, FAG Bearings Corp. and Barden Precision Bearings Corp.

Barnes, Richardson & Colburn, Robert E. Burke, Donald J. Unger, Kazumune V. Kano and Diane A. MacDonald, Chicago, IL, for defendants-intervenors NTN Bearing Corp. of America, American NTN Bearing Mfg. Corp., NTN Kugellagerfabrik (Deutschland) GmbH and NTN Corp.


OPINION

TSOUCALAS, Judge:

Plaintiff, Federal-Mogul Corporation ("Federal-Mogul"), moves pursuant to Rule 42(a) of the Rules of this Court to consolidate Court Nos. 92-06-00422, 92-07-00506, 92-07-00507, 92-07-00508, 92-07-00509, 92-07-00518 and 92-07-00519 under the name Federal-Mogul Corp. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 92-06-00422.

Federal-Mogul argues that consolidation of these cases is warranted because these cases challenge the...

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