Supco Automotive Parts, Inc. v. Triangle Auto Spring Co.

MEMORANDUM

BECHTLE, District Judge.

Presently before the Court is a motion for transfer of the above-captioned civil antitrust class action to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where there is now pending a virtually identical civil action. For the reasons set forth below, the motion will be granted.

We turn first to the background of the first-filed suit, the action in the Northern District of Illinois (the “Illinois action”). That suit, also a civil antitrust suit, was filed on April 2, 1981 — over nine months before the institution of the instant action —…