In Re L. E. Lay & Co. Antitrust Litigation

OPINION AND ORDER

Before ALFRED P. MURRAH, Chairman, and JOHN MINOR WISDOM, EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON, WILLIAM H. BECKER, JOSEPH S. LORD, III * , and STANLEY A. WEI-GEL * , Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

Two antitrust class actions have been commenced in two separate districts by plaintiff Lucille Lollar charging that various defendants instituted and maintained reciprocal dealing agreements and tying arrangements and, furthermore, that they misused a common mortgage escrow trust fund. Plaintiff is both the class representative in the Texas class action and the purported class…