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IN RE BEEF INDUSTRY ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Civ. A. Nos. 3-77-1080-G, 3-77-0990-G, 3-77-0780-G, 3-78-0124-G and 3-78-0123-G, M.D.L. No. 248.

713 F.Supp. 971 (1988)

In re BEEF INDUSTRY ANTITRUST LITIGATION. This document relates to the Packer cases: CA 3-77-1080-G (Ludvigson), CA 3-77-0990-G (Cameron), CA 3-77-0780-G (MPIA), CA 3-78-0124-G (Trigg) and CA 3-78-0123-G (Lee).

United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division.

As Corrected January 4, 1989.

Motion for Reconsideration April 25, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott A. Hawkins, Hawkins & Hawkins, Dallas, Tex., Lex Hawkins, Glenn L. Norris, George F. Davison, Jr. and Carla T. Cook, Hawkins & Norris, Des Moines, Iowa, John A. Cochrane and Stewart C. Loper, Cochrane & Bresnahan, P.A., St. Paul, Minn., Donald J. Polden, Des Moines, Iowa, James W. Witherspoon and James E. Elliott, Witherspoon, Aikin & Langley, Hereford, Tex., and Lowell V. Summer-hays, Sandy, Utah, for plaintiffs.

William G. Schopf, Jr. and Patrick J. Heneghan, Schopf & Weiss, Chicago, Ill., for defendant, IBP, Inc.

John C. Dods and James T. Newsom, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant, Excel.

Morris Harrell and Marshall M. Searcy, Jr., Rain, Harrell, Emery, Young & Duke, Dallas, Tex., for the Packer defendants.

Timothy M. Gallagher and George T. Frampton, Chicago, Ill., for defendant, Nat. Provisioner.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KAZEN, District Judge.

Plaintiff cattle feeders bring suit under §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1 and 2, alleging that the Defendant beef packers combined and conspired to artificially depress the price of live cattle, and attempted to and conspired to monopolize the cattle slaughter and beef fabrication industry. Defendant packers are IBP, Inc. (formerly Iowa Beef Processors, Inc.) and Excel Corporation...

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