Legal Opinion
Commonwealth Edison Company v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 30, 1963No. 14024_1PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KILEY, Circuit Judge.
This court allowed plaintiffs1 to appeal from an order striking from the complaints in 226 related treble damage civil antitrust cases all references to judgments, on pleas of nolo contendere and guilty, entered in the 1960 Philadelphia criminal antitrust cases.
The District Court certified 2 the following question, decided in its order, as an important and controlling question of law in those cases: whether plaintiffs in their private antitrust cases may have the prima facie evidentiary benefit provided by § 5(a) of the Clayton Act3 with respect to judgments entered on…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Wood v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Emich Motors Corp. v. General Motors Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1951
- The Ansaldo San Giorgio I v. Rheinstrom Brothers Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Matthews v. LooneyTexas Supreme Court · 1939
- Pfotzer v. Aqua System, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Zenith Radio Corp. v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1980
- Federal Deposit Insurance v. BerryDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1987
- Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. v. ButcherDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1987
- State of Michigan v. Morton Salt CompanyDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1966
- City of Burbank v. General Electric Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1964
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