Folding Cartons, Inc. v. American Can Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CROWLEY, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on the motion of the plaintiff, Folding Cartons, Inc., for determination of a class pursuant to Rule 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The corporate plaintiff alleges in the amended complaint that the 27 corporate defendants and others, acting in concert, have restrained interstate trade and commerce by fixing and maintaining the price of certain paperboard, known as “box board” or “bending box board”, sold to companies which convert that product into folding cartons, and that the alleged…