In Re Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation

OPINION AND ORDER

The States of Connecticut, Kansas and Florida have separately instituted in their respective federal districts three antitrust class actions against a total of twenty-three major oil companies. Each state is suing individually and on behalf of its agencies, departments and political subdivisions that are consumers of petroleum products and services; the Connecticut class also includes all individual purchasers within the state. The complaints in each action contain allegations that defendants jointly and severally violated various federal antitrust laws and, in essence,…