In Re Folding Carton Antitrust Litigation

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WILL, District Judge.

This multi-district case arose out of massive criminal and civil antitrust litigation involving a nationwide price-fixing conspiracy among manufacturers of folding cartons in violation of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. In September 1979, the parties and the court approved what was then the largest antitrust class action settlement in history. The case is currently before us on two motions of the United States: a motion to intervene pursuant to Rule 24 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and a motion to vacate a second settlement agreement entered…