IN RE VITAMINS ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Nos. MISC. 99-197(TFH), MDL 1285.

305 F.Supp.2d 100 (2004)

In re: VITAMINS ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Livengood Feeds, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Merck KGaA., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

February 18, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen John Pollak, pro se, Shea & Gardner, Washington, DC, for Special Master.

Jodi Trulove, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., Jonathan David Schiller, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Washington, DC, Stephen L. Klimjack, Steven A. Martino, Jackson, Taylor, Martino & Hedge, John W. Sharbrough, III, M. Stephen Dampier, Mary Elizabeth Snow, P. Dean Waite, Jr., The Sharbrough Law Firm, PC, Mobile, AL, Kenneth L. Adams, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Roberta D. Liebenberg, Fine, Kaplan & Black, Philadelphia, PA, Bruce H. Simon, Cohen, Weiss and Simon, LLP, New York, NY, M. Eric Frankovitch, Frankovitch, Anetakis, Colantonio & Simon, Steven M. Recht, Weirton, WV, Craig C. Corbitt, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, Steven O. Sidener, Gold Bennett & Cera LLP, San Francisco, CA, Richard Alan Arnold, Kenny, Nachwalter, Seymour, Arnold, Critchlow & Spector, PA, Miami, FL, Joseph Michael Vanek, Daar, Fisher, Kanaris & Vanek, P.C., Chicago, IL, Gerald G. Saltarelli, Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd, Chicago, IL, C. Brooks Wood, Morrison & Heckler, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Robert II Heuck, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, OH, Dallas D. Ball, Ballentine, SC, Daniel S. Mason, Joseph W. Bell, Peter F. Burns, Sara M. Scott, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, Eric Sean Jackson, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Phillip A. Cole, Lommen, Nelson, Cole & Stageberg, P.A., K. Craig Wildfang, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Andrew S. Birrell, Minneapolis, MN, Kevin A. Bowman, Sebaly, Shillito & Dyer, Dayton, OH, Gordon Ball, Knoxville, TN, Elaine Metlin, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., Bradley Stuart Lui, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, Robert Kenly Webster, Washington, DC, John F. Kinney, Freeman, Freeman & Salzman, PC, Chicago, IL, Lawrence Byrne, White & Case, New York, NY, Charles A. Graddick, Sims, Graddick & Dodson, P.C., Mobile, AL, William James Bachman, Williams & Connolly, Frank Panopoulos, White & Case, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Trawick H. Stubbs, Jr., Stubbs & Perdue, PA, New Bern, CA, Lee Allen Freeman, Freeman, Freeman & Salzman, P.C., Chicago, IL, Michael James Flannery, The David Danis Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, MO, Brian A. Ratner, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, Washington, DC, Terri Chadick, Conner & Winters, P.L.L.C., Fayetteville, AR, Philip Dean Bartz, McKenna, Long & Aldridge & Norman, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Steven E. Uhr, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN, John Edward Schmidtlein, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, Timothy J. Becker, Zimmerman Reed, P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, Michael Orth Ware, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, New York, NY, Richard J. Leveridge, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., David H. Bamberger, Edward Smith Scheideman, Piper Rudnick, LLP, John Justin Rosenthal, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Bruce L. Montgomery, Arnold & Porter, Scott William Muller, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, Geoffrey Smith Irwin, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Karen Natalie Walker, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Jonathan Lee Greenblatt, Shearman & Sterling, Christopher J. Lovrien, Mary-Helen Perry, Jones Day, Donald I. Baker, Baker & Miller, PLLC, Aileen Meyer, Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP, Michael L. Denger, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, William L. Monts, III, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., Andrew Martin McCormack, King & Spalding Ann Marie Malekzadeh, King & Spalding, David Robert Cashdan, Cashdan, Golden & Kane, P.L.L.C., Kerri L. Ruttenberg, King & Spalding, John Worth Kern, IV, Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler, Geoffrey Smith Irwin, David Alan Balto, White & Case, L.L.P., Margaret Kolodny Pfeiffer, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, George J. Terwilliger, White & Case, L.L.P., Jacqueline Ray Denning, Arnold & Porter, Kevin Richard Sullivan, King & Spalding, Washington, DC, George T. Manning, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Atlanta, GA, Tyrone C. Fahner, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, Richard Schwed, Stephen Fishbein, Shearman & Sterling, Lawrence Portnoy, Suzanne E. Kerrigan, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, Aidan Synnott, Gregory A. Kasper, Melanie H. Stein, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Thomas M. Mueller, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Steven W. Gold, Mintz & Gold, L.L.P., New York, NY, John M. Majoras, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, John F. McCaffrey, McLaughlin & McCaffrey, L.L.P., Cleveland, OH, David M. Balabanian, Bingham McCutchen LLP, San Francisco, CA, Erin R. Brewster, MacCorkle Lavender & Casey, PLLC, Charleston, WV, Mark Riera, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Bethany G. Lukitsch, James H. Walsh, Stephanie L. Karfias, McGuire Woods, LLP, Richmond, VA, Andrew S. Marovitz, Britt Miller, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, Catherine J. Hertzig, Jonathan Shiffman, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, D. Stuart Meiklejohn, Stacey R. Friedman, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, NY, Michael Logan Ware, San Francisco, CA, Donald I. Baker, W. Todd Miller, Baker & Miller PLLC, Donald C. Klawiter, Thomas John Lang, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Waashington, DC, Alice M. Goldwire Glass, Lyme, NH, Cathy M. Armstrong, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, Wheeling, WV, Charles E. Jarrett, Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland, OH, Holly A. House, McCutchen Doyle Brown & Eneneer, San Francisco, CA, Sutton Keany, Pillsbury & Winthrop, LLP, New York, NY, E. Perry Johnson, Jeffrey S. Russell, Bryan Cave LLP, St. Louis, MO, for Defendants.

William W. Kocher, Columbus, OH, Philip A. Steinberg, Bala Cynwyd, PA, for Claimant.

Eric B. Fastiff, Leiff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Guido Saveri, Saveri & Saveri, PC, San Francisco, CA, Jeffrey Andrew Bartos, Guerrieri, Edmond & Clayman, Washington, DC, James P. McCarthy, Mark Alan Jacobson, Lindquist & Vennum, P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, Michael G. Lenett, The Cuneo Law Group, P.C., Washington, DC, Peter Heidenberger, Chevy Chase, MD, Paul R. Taskier, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Movant.

John Peter Relman, Relman & Associates, Gerald Zingone, Thelan Reid & Priest, LLC, Washington, DC, for Amicus.

Steven R. Kuney, Williams & Connolly, Garrett Berry Magens Duarte, Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, Washington, DC, for Intervenor.


MEMORIALIZING OPINION

Re: Final Approval of Biotin and Niacin Defendants Settlements

THOMAS F. HOGAN, Chief Judge.

Pending before the Court is class plaintiffs' Motion pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(e) and 54 for Final Approval of Settlement Between Class Plaintiffs and Defendants Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Chemical America, Inc., Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd., Tanabe USA, Inc., Lonza...

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