Legal Opinion
Riss & Company v. Association of American Railroads
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 6, 1960No. Civ. A. 4056-54PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIRICA, District Judge.
This is a private antitrust action for treble damages and injunction brought by Riss & Company, a Kansas City trucking concern, against twenty-three of the nation’s Class I railroads, four railroad associations and a public relations firm, Carl Byoir and Associates, Inc. 1
Plaintiff’3 contention, as set forth on page one of its “Memorandum Summarizing Plaintiff’s Conspiracy Proof against all Defendants”, is that the defendants conspired to monopolize the transportation of ammunition and explosives for the United States Government in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the…
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