IN RE MILK PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. 98-3758.

195 F.3d 430 (1999)

In re MILK PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Rainy Lake One Stop, Inc., et al., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Marigold Foods, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl L. Cambronne, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Jack L. Chestnut, Karl L. Cambronne, Jeffrey D. Bores, Chestnut & Brooks, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, Richard A. Lockridge, Sara L. Madsen, Lockridge Grindal Nauen & Holstein, P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, Minnesota, John A. Cochrane, Cochrane & Bresnahan, P.A., St. Paul, Minnesota, Hugh V. Plunkett, III, Robert K. Shelquist, Bryan J. Leary, Plunkett, Schwartz Peterson, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mark Reinhardt, Gary D. Ansel, Jonathan S. Drage, Reinhardt and Anderson, St. Paul, Minnesota, Charles H. Johnson, Charles H. Johnson & Assoc., New Brighton, Minnesota, Joel Meredith, Steven Greenfogel, Meredith, Cohen & Greenfogel P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richard P. Olson, Olson Burns Lee & Larson, P.C., Minot, North Dakota, Brian N. Toder, Brian N. Toder, LTD., St. Paul, Minnesota, Kevin W. Rouse, James C. Easterly, Rouse & Easterly, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Peter E. Moll, Washington, DC, argued (Gary Hansen, William L. Sippel, Stephen G. Mahon, Doherty, Rumble & Butler, Minneapolis, MN, Peter E. Moll, Brian D. Wallach, Joseph J. Weissman, Howrey & Simon, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Land O' Lakes, Inc.

Peter E. Moll, Washington, DC, argued (James L. Volling, Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for Schroeder Milk Co., Inc.,

Peter E. Moll, Washington, DC, argued (Joseph M. Sokolowski, Parsinen, Kaplan, Levy, Rosberg & Gotlieb, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for K&P Co., Inc. d/b/a Polka Dot Dairy, Inc.,

Peter E. Moll, Washington, DC, argued (Jerome B. Pederson, Todd Wind, Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for Marigold Foods, Inc., Marigold Venture, Inc., BolsWessanen U.S.A., Inc. and BolsWessanen Holdings, Inc.,

Peter E. Moll, Washington, DC, argued (George O. Ludcke, Thomas W. Pahl, Kelly & Berens, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for Meyer Bros. Dairy, Inc.,

Peter E. Moll, Washington, DC, argued (Alan M. Maclin, W. Patrick Judge, Briggs and Morgan, P.A., St. Paul, MN, on the brief), for Geo. Benz & Sons, Inc. d/b/a Oak Grove Dairy.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD and LOKEN, Circuit Judges, and BYRNE, District Judge.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

This is an antitrust action commenced as a class action by purchasers of milk and milk products at wholesale. The defendants are milk processors accused of conspiring to fix their wholesale prices in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. After more than two years of discovery and pretrial motions, the district court1 dismissed the individual claims of the named plaintiffs and denied their...

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