United States v. Johns-Manville Corporation

VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

The defendants in this criminal action under 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1 and 2 are two manufacturing corporations and certain individuals employed (or previously employed) by them, and the case is now before the court on Motions To Dismiss the indictment (Documents Nos. 15-21 and 23-26).

The indictment alleges that beginning sometime prior to 1954, the exact date being to the grand jurors unknown, and continuing thereafter up to and including the date of the return of the indictment, the defendants and other co-conspirators have engaged in a combination and conspiracy in…