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CAUDLE v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC.

Civ. A. No. 84-2059.

676 F.Supp. 314 (1987)

Charles P. CAUDLE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 23, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Watt, Robert H. Nichols, Cotton, Watt, Jones & King, Chicago, Ill., Denis F. Gordon, David M. Ermer, Gordon & Barnett, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Joseph L. Manson, III, Ronald B. Natalie, James F. Hibey, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Jonathan A. Cohen, Air Line Pilots Assoc., Washington, D.C., for defendant Air Line Pilots Association.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

This case presents vivid proof that horizontal mergers can, on occasion, produce severe diseconomies in operation and management. The 1981 merger of Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) and National Airlines (National) forms the backdrop for the present controversy. Plaintiffs are 37 Pan Am pilots who flew for National prior to the merger of the two companies.1 They...

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