IN RE URETHANE ANTITRUST LITIGATION

MDL No. 1616. Case Nos. 04-1616-JWL, 08-2617-JWL, 09-2026-JWL.

683 F.Supp.2d 1214 (2010)

In re URETHANE ANTITRUST LITIGATION, This Document Relates to the following Polyether Polyol Cases: Carpenter Co., et al. v. BASF SE, et al., and Woodbridge Foam Corporation, et al. v. BASF SE, et al.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

January 25, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Eddy, Travis C. Wheeler, Nexsen Pruet, LLC, Columbia, SC, Henry J. Handzel, Jr., Jonathon P. Axelrod, Dewitt Ross & Stevens S.C., Madison, WI, Joseph Goldberg, Freedman, Boyd, Hollander, Goldberg & Ives PA, Albuquerque, NM, Joshua J. Hofer, Robert W. Coykendall, Roberta D. Liebenberg, Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chtd., Wichita, KS, George A. Hanson, Norman E. Siegel, Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Kansas City, MO, Rex A. Sharp, Gunderson Sharp & Walke, LLP, Prairie Village, KS, Roy Morrow Bell, Troutman Sanders LLP, San Diego, CA, Steven A. Kanner, Freed Kanner London & Millen, LLC, Bannockburn, IL, James Belford Brown, Herum Crabtree Brown, Stockton, CA, James V. Demera, III, Mullen Sullivan & Newton, LLP, Lodi, CA, Allyn Z. Lite, Bruce D. Greenberg, Michael E. Patunas, Lite Depalma Greenberg, LLC, Newark, NJ, Judith A. Shimm, Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP, Susan G. Kupfer, Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP, Eric B. Fastiff, Joseph R. Saveri, Michele Chickerell Jackson, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Berstein, LLP, Cadio Zirpoli, Geoffrey C. Rushing, Guido Saveri, Saveri & Saveri, Inc., Craig C. Corbitt, Francis O. Scarpulla, Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP, Mario Nunzio Alioto, Trump Alioto Trump & Prescott LLP, Joseph M. Patane, Law Office of Joseph M. Patane, Diana K. Kim, Joseph M. Barton, Gold, Bennett, Cera & Sidener, LLP, Michael P. Lehmann, Thomas Patrick Dove, Alex C. Turan, Frederick P. Furth, Julio Ramos, Furth Lehmann& Grant, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Daniel E. Gustafson, Gustafson Gluek PLLC, W. Joseph Bruckner, Yvonne M. Flaherty, Lockridge Grindal Nauen, PLLP, Minneapolis, MN, David F. Oliver, Berkowitz Oliver Williams Shaw & Eisenbrandt, LLP, Kansas City, MO, W. Joseph Hatley, Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, Norman E. Siegel, Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Kansas City, MO, Stewart L. Cohen, William D. Marvin, Cohen, Placitella & Roth PC, Philadelphia, PA, J. Bruce McKissock, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Simon Paris, Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky PC, Donald L. Perelman, Paul Costa, Ria C. Momblanco, Allen D. Black, Gerard A. Dever, Roberta D. Liebenberg, Fine, Kaplan and Black, RPC, Joshua H. Grabar, Anthony J. Bolognese, Bolognese & Associates, LLC, Steven J. Greenfogel, Meredith, Cohen Greenfogel & Skirnick, P.C., David H. Weinstein, Steven A. Asher, Weinstein Kitchenoff & Asher LLC, Howard J. Sedran, Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Ira Neil Richards, Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards LLC, Philadelphia, PA, Marc H. Edelson, Hoffman & Edelson, Doylestown, PA, Myroslaw Smorodsky, Law Offices of Myroslaw Smorodsky, Rutherford, NY, Daniel R. Karon, Weinstein Kitchenoff Scarlato Karon Goldman, Cleveland, OH, Mary Jane Edelstein Fait, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, Gary Specks, Kaplan Fox, Chicago, IL, Jason A. Zweig, Richard J. Kilsheimer, Robert N. Kaplan, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer, LLP, Fred Taylor Isquith, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, Sharon K. Robertson, Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, PLLC, 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, Roger M. Schrimp, Clinton P. Walker, Norman E. Siegel, Damrell, Nelson, Schrimp, Pallios, Pache, Modesto, CA, Lionel Z. Glancy, Michael M. Goldberg, Peter A. Binkow, Susan G. Kupfer, 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, Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA, Donna Siegel Moffa, Lisa J. Rodriguez, Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards LLP, Haddonfield, NJ, Jason S. Kilene, Gustafson Gluek PLLC, W. Joseph Bruckner, Lockridge Grindal Nauen, PLLP, Minneapolis, MN, Douglas A. Millen, Freed Kanner London & Millen, LLC, Bannockburn, IL, Garrett D. Blanchfield, Jr., Reinhardt Wendorf & Blanchfield, St. Paul, MN, John K. Weston, Sacks & Weston, LLC, Ann D. White, Ann D. White Law Offices, PC, Andrew B. Sacks, Sacks & Weston, LLC, Jenkintown, PA, William H. London, Freed Kanner London & Millen, LLC, Bannockburn, IL, Dianne M. Nast, Rodanast, P.C., Lancaster, PA, Roy Morrow Bell, Timothy P. Irving, Troutman Sanders LLP, San Diego, CA, John J. McGrath, McKissock & Hoffman, PC, Haddonfield, NJ, Michael N. Nemelka, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC, Christopher J. Cormier, Besrat J. Gebrewold, Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, PLLC, Jodi Trulove, Richard J. Leveridge, Sabrina Nelson, Elaine Metlin, Dickstein Shapiro, LLP, Christopher T. Leonardo, R. Bruce Holcomb, Adams Holcomb, LLP, Washington, DC, Isaac L. Diel, Sharp McQueen P.A., Overland Park, KS, Anthony D. Shapiro, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, WA, Thomas A. Mazilla, The Muzilla Law Firm, LLC, Cleveland, OH, for Urethane Antitrust Litigation et al.

Craig E. Ziegler, Richard L. Scheff, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhodes, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Andrew Stanley Marovitz, Jason Brett Fliegel, Terri A. Mazur, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Chicago, IL, David F. Oliver, Berkowitz Oliver Williams Shaw & Eisenbrandt, LLP, Floyd R. Finch, Jr., Finch & Campbell, LLP, Shelley A. Runion, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, Brian R. Markley, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP, Bryan Turner White, Charles W. German, Phillip G. Greenfield, Rouse Hendricks German May, PC, Kansas City, MO, Jeffrey N. Luthi, Clerk of The MDL Panel, Erica Mueller, Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov, Robert Fleishman, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, G. Hamilton Loeb, Jeremy P. Evans, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, Washington, DC, Justin T. Toth, Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, Salt Lake City, UT, Steven P. Benenson, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, Morristown, NJ, for BASF SE, et al.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOHN W. LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.

This Memorandum and Order relates to two direct actions by plaintiffs who have opted out of the class certified in the main action in this multi-district antitrust case, as noted in the caption above. The direct actions are presently before the Court on defendants' motion to dismiss the European plaintiffs' claims based on European law (Doc. # 1179); defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiffs'...

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