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PROVINCE v. CLEVELAND PRESS PUB. CO.

Civ. A. Nos. C83-847, C84-2145.

605 F.Supp. 945 (1985)

James R. PROVINCE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CLEVELAND PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, et al., Defendants, v. CLEVELAND TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO. 53, et al., Third Party Defendants. Ronald RIDLEY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PLAIN DEALER PUBLISHING COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, E.D.

March 20, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Phillips, Stanley B. Weiner, Landskroner & Phillips Co., L.P.A., Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiffs.

Jon C. Flinker, Craig M. Brown, Duvin, Flinker & Cahn, Cleveland, Ohio, for Cleveland Press Publishing Company (labor law issues).

Robert M. Goodman, Gail Sindell, Barbara Friedman Yaksic, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, Ohio, for Cleveland Press Publishing Company and Joseph E. Cole (antitrust issues).

Parker M. Orr, David G. Holcombe, Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland, Ohio, for The E.W. Scripps Company.

James P. Garner, Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland, Ohio, Williams E. Willis, Richard J. Urowsky, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, and Tobias J. Bermant, Sabin, Bermant & Blau, New York City, for Plain Dealer Publishing and S.I. Newhouse, Jr.

Lawrence M. Oberdank, Laybourne, Smith, Oberdank, Gore & Shapiro, Cleveland, Ohio, for Cleveland Typographical Union No. 53 and Haven Combs.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ANN ALDRICH, District Judge.

These cases allege that the June 17, 1982 closing of the Cleveland Press daily afternoon newspaper was the product of a conspiracy between the publishers of the Press and The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's sole surviving daily paper. Eighty-nine former Press employees allege that the transactions surrounding the paper's closing violated federal labor and antitrust laws and Ohio common law.

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