Legal Opinion
State of Illinois v. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided April 25, 1969No. 67 C 1899PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
DECKER, District Judge.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, more than forty separate antitrust actions have been transferred to thisnurt for consolidated discovery and prual proceedings. Originally institutein eight judicial districts, the private tsle damage suits seek compensation f alleged conspiracies which inflated the ices for children’s editions of library bos. The plaintiffs, who are largely ste and local governments, claim to he been overcharged as a result of eitb (1) a horizontal agreement among tl industry’s book publishers, or (2) a ries of vertical conspiracies…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Dolgow v. AndersonDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1968
- Philadelphia Electric Co. v. Anaconda American Brass Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1968
- Cypress v. Newport News General & Nonsectarian Hospital Ass'nCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- Weeks v. Bareco Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1941
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3Cited by88 opinions
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