IN RE TRAVEL AGENCY COM'N ANTITRUST LITIGATION

M.D.L. 1058.

898 F.Supp. 685 (1995)

In re TRAVEL AGENCY COMMISSION ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

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

August 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Hausfeld, Jerry S. Cohen, Daniel A. Small, Beth A. Andreozzi, Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, Arnold Levin, Howard J. Sedran, Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA, Nicholas E. Chimicles, Ira Neil Richards, Chimicles Jacobson & Tikellis, Mark C. Rifkin, Greenfield & Rifkin, Haverford, PA, Dennis Stewart, Sharon Maier, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, CA, Samuel D. Heins, Kent M. Williams, Stacey L. Mills, Heins Mills & Olson, Minneapolis, MN, Fred T. Isquith, Wolf, Haldenstein, Alder, Freeman & Herz, New York City, for Travel Network, Ltd., Debra Bermingham, Julie Hayes, Service, Travel & Tours Corp., Marie Jose Carlson, Center Travel of Bensalem, Inc., Grant Street International, Ltd., All About Travel Inc., Horsham Travel, Inc., Beekmans Vdo, Inc., Rona Travel Agency, Inc., Lacienega Travel, Inc., Broadaxe Globe Travel, Inc., Travel Dimension, Inc., Management Travel Consultants, Inc., Departure Travel Inc., Martin's Travel & Tours, Inc., Gateway Travel of Lake Arbor, Inc., Travel Leader Group of Colorado, Ltd., Mark IV Travel, Inc., Kuhn & Corbett, Inc., Santa Barbara Travel Bureau, ASTA.

Mark David Savin, John Dwyer French, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, MN, Robert E. Cooper, Chad S. Hummel, Peter Sullivan, Jon G. Shepherd, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, for American Airlines, Inc.

Leon R. Goodrich, Bradley Grayson Clary, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, St. Paul, MN, Mark Leddy, David I. Gelfand, Mark W. Nelson, Michael P. Shea, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Washington, DC, for Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Thomas W. Tinkham, Carol Alice Peterson, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, Parker C. Folse, III, M. Katherine Sammons, Charles R. Eskridge, Susman Godfrey, Houston, TX, for Northwest Airlines, Inc.

George Orlyn Ludcke, Best & Flanagan, Timothy Desmond Kelly, Kelly & Berens, Minneapolis, MN, Andrew S. Marovitz, Mayer Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, Richard J. Favretto, Mark W. Ryan, Mayer Brown & Platt, Washington, DC, Stephen P. Sawyer, J. Craig Busey, Busey & Sawyer, Elk Grove, IL, for United Air Lines, Inc.

Deborah J. Palmer, Elliot S. Kaplan, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN, Robert C. Heim, George G. Gordon, Allison S. Lapat, Jennifer Clark, Dechert Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, Jennifer R. Clarke, for USAir, Inc.

Richard J. Wertheimer, Paul T. Denis, Mark A. Merva, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, Gerald L. Svoboda, Fabyanske Svoboda Westra Davis & Hart, Minneapolis, MN, for Continental Airlines, Inc.

David Fulton Herr, Alain M. Baudry, Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, Minneapolis, MN, Thomas W. Rhodes, Smith Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta, GA, Mary McGuire Voog, Trans World Airline, St. Louis, MO, for Trans World Airlines, Inc.

Anne K. Bingaman, Joel I. Klein, Roger W. Fones, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Transportation Energy & Agriculture, Washington, DC, amicus U.S.

Richard T. Thomson, Lapp Laurie Libra Abramson & Thomson, Minneapolis, MN, Tony G. Power, Tony G. Powers, Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, GA, for Worldspan, L.P.

Francis O. Scarpulla, Scarpulla Law Office, San Francisco, CA, Stacey L. Mills, Heins Mills & Olson, Minneapolis, MN, William Bernstein, Joseph R. Saveri, Jacqueline E. Mottek, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, Alexander Anolik, Mitchell Blumenthal, Wayne Caldwell, Anolik Law Office, San Francisco, CA, for Management Travel Consultants, Inc.

Edwin Lee Sisam, Gregg Edward Isaacson, Dorothy J. Buhr, Sisam & Assoc, Minneapolis, MN, Larry Daniel Drury, Drury Law Office, Chicago, IL, for Travel Unlimited, Inc.


ORDER

ROSENBAUM, District Judge.

This case arises from travel agent commission revisions instituted during February, 1995. This change in commissions for domestic air travel tickets was imposed by seven major American commercial airlines.1 These class actions, now consolidated for pretrial purposes by the Panel on MultiDistrict Litigation ("M.D.L. Panel"), were commenced by various travel agencies and travel agent organizations...

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