Legal Opinion
United States v. Leggett & Platt, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 29, 1976No. 75-1719PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.
On May 15, 1971, the government filed the instant civil antitrust action against defendant-appellee Leggett and Platt (“LP”) to require LP to divest itself of the March 81, 1968 stock acquisition of Detroit-based Motor City Spring Company and the January 2, 1969, assets acquisition of Cincinnati-based J. R. Greeno Company. On January 3, 1975, LP filed amended requests for the government to produce certain documents, including documents relating to the government’s investigations, no more than one culminating in litigation, of other innersprings and box springs…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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3Cited by71 opinions
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