IN RE CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Nos. 80-1018, 80-1103 Summary Calendar.

659 F.2d 1322 (1981)

In re CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. ADAMS EXTRACT CO., et al., Plaintiff-Appellees, CFS Continental, Inc., et al., Townhouse Furniture, et al., Rossville Packing Co., et al., Denver Meat Co., et al., Carron Manufacturing Co., Andre-Boudin Bakeries, Inc., Ilikon Corp., Great Northern Packaging Corp., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Appellees, Pleasure Hours, Inc., et al., London Dry Ltd., et al., Plaintiffs-Objectors-Appellants-Appellees, v. The CHESAPEAKE CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, et al., Stone Container Corp., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees. In re CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. ADAMS EXTRACT CO., et al., Plaintiff-Appellees, Great Northern Packaging Corp., et al., CFS Continental, Inc., et al., Rossville Packing Co., et al., Andre-Boudin Bakeries, Inc., et al., Townhouse Furniture, et al., Denver Meat Co., et al., Carron Manufacturing Co., Ilikon Corp., Wittek Golf Supply Co., Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Appellees, v. PLEASURE HOURS, INC., et al., St. Joe Paper Co., The Continental Group, Okinfraft, Inc., Container Corporation of America, The Chesapeake Corporation of Virginia, Owens-Illinois, Inc., MacMillan Bloedel, Inc., Inland Container Corp., Menasha Corp., U. S. Corrugated Fibre-Box Co., Stone Container Corp., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

October 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aram A. Hartunian, Marshall Patner, Pressman & Hartunian, Chtd., Chicago, Ill., Michael W. Perrin, Fisher, Roch & Gallagher, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants Great Northern Packaging Corp., et. al., co-representative of Sheet Plant Sub-Class.

Stephen D. Susman, Terrell W. Oxford, William H. White, Susman & McGowan, Houston, Tex., Vance K. Opperman, McGovern, Opperman & Paquin, Minneapolis, Minn., for class plaintiffs-appellees.

Charles Kadish, Breed, Abbott & Morgan, New York City, for settling defendant Union Camp Corp.

Allen D. Black, Fine, Kaplan & Black, Philadelphia, Pa., Jack Chestnut, Chestnut & Brooks, Minneapolis, Minn., Jerry S. Cohen, Kohn, Milstein & Cohen, Washington, D. C., Jack Corinblit, Marc M. Seltzer, Corinblit, Shapero & Seltzer, Los Angeles, Cal., Kenton C. Granger, Anderson, Granger, Nagels, Lastelic & Gordon, Overland Park, Kan., Charles Kipple, Saccomanno, Clegg, Martin & Kipple, Houston, Tex., H. Kenneth Kudon, Pantaleo & Kudon, Chartered, Washington, D. C., Seymour Kurland, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., Lowell E. Sachnoff, Sachnoff, Schrager, Jones, Weaver & Rubenstein, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs' Steering Committee.

H. Laddie Montague, Jr., Howard Langer, Berger & Montague, P. C., Philadelphia, Pa., Lawrence J. Hayes, Maun, Green, Hayes, Simon, Johanneson & Brehl, St. Paul, Minn., for Sheet Plant Subclass plaintiffs-appellees; Richard A. Lockridge, John Murray & Associates, St. Paul, Minn., of counsel.

Henry L. King, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, for undersigned settling defendants.

David E. Bennett, Mark M. Heatwole, Chadwell, Kayser, Ruggles, McGee & Hastings, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Container Corp. of America.

Fletcher H. Etheridge, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, Tex., Harold F. Baker, Alan M. Wiseman, Gaspare J. Bono, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae The Mead Corp.

Michael H. King, Alexander R. Domanskis, Eric S. Palles, Ross, Hardies, O'Keefe, Babcock & Parsons, Kael B. Kennedy, Lee Ann Watson, Katten, Muchin, Zavis, Pearl & Galler, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants-appellees.

James B. Sloan, Sloan & Connelly, P.C., Chicago, Ill., Guido Saveri, Saveri & Saveri, San Francisco, Cal., Phillip C. Goldstick, Goldstick & Smith, Joseph A. Ginsburg, Levin, Ginsburg & Novoselsky, Chicago, Ill., Leonard Barrack, Barrack, Rodos & McMahon, Philadelphia, Pa., Granvil I. Specks, Perry Goldberg, Gary L. Specks, Specks & Goldberg, Ltd., Ellis Sostrin, Sostrin & Walner, Chicago, Ill., Robert H. Weir, Law Offices of Robert H. Weir, San Jose, Cal., Michael J. Freed, Lawrence H. Eiger, Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament & Eiger, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant Container Purchasers.

Before CHARLES CLARK, TATE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:

We remanded this multidistrict price-fixing class action for more detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law concerning various aspects of settlements approved by the district court. 643 F.2d 195, 225-26 (5th Cir. 1981). At the same time, we noted that "[n]one of the [objectors'] arguments persuades us that the settlements must be set aside or modified." Id. at 202. The district court made...

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