In re Screws Antitrust Litigation

MEMORANDUM

CAFFREY, Chief Judge.

This multidistrict litigation is before the Court, and argument has been heard, on the plaintiffs’ motion to obtain the grand jury transcripts of four individuals who testified before the grand jury which returned the indictment in United States v. Amtel, Inc. et al. (D.Mass. 80-244).1 Objections filed by third parties to a subpoena duces tecum served by the plaintiffs on the government are also before the Court.2

Release of grand jury transcripts under Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure,3 requires balancing the interest of grand jury secrecy…