IN RE URETHANE ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. 04-MD-1616-JWL.

409 F.Supp.2d 1275 (2006)

In Re: URETHANE ANTITRUST LITIGATION This Order Relates to the Polyether Polyol Cases

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

January 18, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Hanson, Norman E. Siegel, Stueve Siegel Hanson Woody LLP, Kansas City, MO, Roy Morrow Bell, Jason S. Hartley, Timothy P. Irving, Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP, San Diego, CA, Steven A. Kanner, Douglas A. Millen, William H. London, Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein PC, Mary Jane Edelstein Fait, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, Gary Specks, Kaplan Fox, Chicago, IL, Susan G. Kupfer, Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP, Diana K. Kim, Joseph M. Barton, Steven O. Sidener, Paul F. Bennett, Gold, Bennett, Cera & Sidener, LLP, Michael P. Lehmann, Thomas Patrick Dove, Alex C. Turan, Frederick P. Furth, Julio Ramos, The Furth Firm LLP, San Francisco, CA, W. Joseph Bruckner, Yvonne M. Flaherty, Lockridge Grindal Nauen, PLLP, Minneapolis, MN, Andrew Bullion, Anthony J. Bolognese, Joshua H. Grabar, Bolognese & Associates, LLC, Steven J. Greenfogel, Meredith, Cohen Greenfogel & Skirnick, P.C., David H. Weinstein, Weinstein Kitchenoff & Asher LLC, Howard J. Sedran, Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Andrew B. Sacks, John K. Weston, Sacks & Weston, LLC, Ira Neil Richards, Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards LLC, Allen D. Black, Gerard A. Dever, Roberta D. Liebenberg, Fine, Kaplan and Black, RPC, Philadelphia, PA, Marc H. Edelson, Hoffman & Edelson, Doylestown, PA, Myroslaw Smorodsky, Law Offices of Myroslaw Smorodsky, Rutherford, NY, Jason A. Zweig, Matthew P. McCahill, Richard J. Kilsheimer, Robert N. Kaplan, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer, LLP, Fred Taylor Isquith, Wolf Haldensteinadler Freeman & Herz LLP, New York, NY, William J. Pinilis, Pinilis Halpern, LLP, Morristown, NJ, Angela K. Drake, Lowther Johnson, Attorneys at Law, LLC, Springfield, MO, Peter D. St. Phillip, Jr., Lowey, Dannenberg, Bemporad & Selinger, PC, White Plains, NY, Eric B. Fastiff, Joseph R. Saveri, Michele Chickerell Jackson, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Berstein, LLP, Cadio Zirpoli, Geoffrey C. Rushing, Guido Saveri, Richard Alexander Saveri, Saveri & Saveri, Inc., Craig C. Corbitt, Judith A. Shimm, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, LLP, Francis O. Scarpulla, Law Office of Francis O. Scarpulla, Joseph M. Patane, Law Office of Joseph M. Patane, Mario Nunzio Alioto, Trump Alioto Trump & Prescott LLP, Ronald D. Foreman, Foreman & Brasso, San Francisco, CA, James Belford Brown, Herum Crabtree Brown, Stockton, CA, James V. Demera, III, Mullen Sullivan & Newton, LLP, Lodi, CA, Clinton P. Walker, Roger M. Schrimp, Damrell, Nelson, Schrimp, Pallios, Pache, Modesto, CA, Lionel Z. Glancy, Michael M. Goldberg, Peter A. Binkow, Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Anne White, White & Goldstein, LLC, Jenkintown, PA, Dianne M. Nast, Michael G. Nast, Rodanast, P.C., Lancaster, PA, Krishna Narine, Schiffrin & Barroway LLC, Radnor, PA, Donna Siegel Moffa, Lisa J. Rodriguez, Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards LLP, John J. McGrath, McKissock & Hoffman, PC, Haddonfield, NJ, Garrett D. Blanchfield, Jr., Reinhardt Wendorf & Blanchfield, St. Paul, MN, Allyn Z. Lite, Bruce D. Greenberg, Joseph J. Depalma, Michael E. Patunas, Lite, Depalma, Greenberg & Rivas LLC, Newark, NJ, Arthur N. Bailey, Arthur N. Bailey & Associates, Jamestown, NY, Christopher J. Cormier, Justine J. Kaiser, Michael D. Hausfeld, Stewart M. Weltman, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, Isaac L. Diel, Law Offices of Isaac L. Diel, Bonner Springs, KS, Joseph Goldberg, Freedman, Boyd, Daniels, Hollander & Goldberg, PA, Albuquerque, NM, Robert W. Coykendall, Tim J. Moore, Roger N. Walter, Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chtd., Wichita, KS, for Plaintiffs.

Andrew Stanley Marovitz, Jason Brett Fliegel, Terri A. Mazur, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Joan M. Meyers, Mark V. Chester, Johnson & Colmar, Chicago, IL, David F. Oliver, Berkowitz Oliver Williams Shaw & Eisenbrandt, LLP, Floyd R. Finch, Jr., Shelley A. Runion, Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP, James R. Eiszner, Joseph G. Matye, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Brian R. Markley, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP, Charles W. German, Matthew P. Hamner, Phillip G. Greenfield, Rouse Hendricks German May PC, Kansas City, MO, Caroline N. Mitchell, Jones Day, Michael F. Tubach, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, San Francisco, CA, J. Andrew Read, Mark L. Glassman, William V. O'Reilly, Jones Day, Benjamin G. Bradshaw, Ian Simmons, Ira H. Raphaelson, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, G. Hamilton Loeb, Jeremy P. Evans, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, Erica Mueller, Robert Fleishman, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov, Washington, DC, Adam T. Suroff, W. Joseph Hatley, Lathrop & Gage, LC, Overland Park, KS, James S. Jardine, John W. Mackey, Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, Salt Lake City, UT, Ian N. Feinberg, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP, Palo Alto, CA, William C. Cagney, Windels, Marx, Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, New Brunswick, NJ, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.

This multidistrict litigation consists of numerous putative class action lawsuits in which plaintiffs claim that defendants engaged in unlawful price fixing conspiracies with respect to urethane chemical products in violation of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The court has consolidated two separate sets of cases — the Polyester Polyol Cases and the Polyether Polyol Cases. This Memorandum and Order...

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