Legal Opinion
In Re Vitamins Antitrust Class Actions
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 9, 2000No. 99-7256, 99-7281PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
Over the 1990s, and even farther back, vitamin manufacturers allegedly fixed prices on bulk vitamin sales in violation of the antitrust laws. By September 1999 a Department of Justice investigation had secured guilty pleas from several major suppliers. Dozens of private antitrust actions followed, and by late November 1999 approximately 49 cases were pending before the district court.
At a status conference for all interested parties on November 3, 1999, counsel for the proposed representatives of a broad class of…
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