Kansas City Power & Light Co. v. I-T-E Circuit Breaker Co.

BECKER, District Judge.

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION IN THE ALTERNATIVE TO TRANSFER

The five civil treble damage antitrust actions mentioned in the caption of this order are a part of massive multiple litigation of similar nature, filed in this and thirty other Uñited States District Courts following indictments of manufacturers of electrical equipment in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1960. These indictments charged separate conspiracies to fix prices and allocate markets in twenty separate products. See Neal and Goldberg, The Electrical Equipment Antitrust Cases: Novel Judicial…