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WEARLY v. F. T. C.

Civ. No. 77-1860.

503 F.Supp. 174 (1980)

W. L. WEARLY, Ingersoll-Rand Company and The Torrington Company, Plaintiffs, v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Michael Pertschuk, Chairman, Calvin J. Collier, David A. Clanton, M. Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Paul Rand Dixon, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

December 9, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernhard, Durst & Dilts by George M. Dilts, Flemington, N. J. (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D. C., by Charles W. Smith, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for plaintiff, Wearly.

Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey by David M. McCann, Newark, N. J. (Lovejoy, Wasson, Lundgren & Ashton, New York City by Joseph W. Burns, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs Ingersoll Rand and Torrington.

William W. Robertson, U. S. Atty. by Anne Singer, Asst. U. S. Atty., Newark, N. J., James H. Sneed, Gen. Counsel, W. Dennis Cross, Asst. Gen. Counsel, by Theodore H. Hoppock, Atty., Washington, D. C., for defendants.

OPINION

BIUNNO, District Judge.

"How many angels can dance on the point of a very fine needle without jostling each other?"1

This is the sort of medieval philosophic exercise, time consuming, intractable of solution, and long antedating the analytical formulation of Parkinson's Laws, that confronts the court in the present proceeding to settle the form of order to be entered on the mandate of the Court of Appeals.

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