Legal Opinion
In Re New Mexico Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided December 11, 1979No. 403PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
This litigation presently consists of three actions pending in two districts: two actions in the District of New Mexico and one action in the Northern District of Texas. All three actions involve an alleged conspiracy to raise illegally the wellhead price of natural gas in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, with a resulting increase in the cost of natural gas to New Mexico consumers.
Central to the nature of the antitrust conspiracy alleged by the plaintiffs in the three actions are the interlocking relationships among Southern Union Company (Southern Union) and most of the…
3Cases cited3 opinions
- In Re Kauffman Mutual Fund ActionsUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1972
- In re Bristol Bay, Alaska, Salmon Fishery Antitrust LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1976
- In Re Oil Spill by the "Amoco Cadiz"United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1979
4Cited by4 opinions
- In Re New Mexico Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation. State of New Mexico Ex Rel. Department of Finance and Administration v. Southern Union CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1980
- Brewer v. Southern Union Co.District Court, D. Colorado · 1984
- In Re New Mexico Natural Gas Antitrust LitigationDistrict Court, D. Colorado · 1984
- Brewer v. Southern Union Co.District Court, D. Colorado · 1984