In Re Pressure Sensitive Labelstock Antitrust Litigation

MEMORANDUM

VANASKIE, Chief Judge.

In the wake of an announcement by the United States Department of Justice that it was pursuing an action to enjoin a merger in the self-adhesive labelstock industry and was undertaking a grand jury investigation into the competitive practices in that industry, Plaintiffs, seeking to represent a nationwide class of self-adhesive labelstock purchasers, brought this action asserting a conspiracy among self-adhesive labelstock producers to fix prices in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The named Defendants are Avery Dennison Corporation…