In Re Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation. Adams Extract Co., Inc. v. Green Bay Packaging, Inc.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

In this final phase of a massive class action antitrust litigation, begun seven years ago, plaintiffs seek to collect from one of the defendants the amount fixed by the court in a consent decree that incorporated the terms of a settlement agreement between the plaintiffs and that defendant. The defendant resists this effort, contending that, under a most-favored-nations clause in the agreement, it is entitled to a major reduction in the amount to be paid because of the more favorable settlements negotiated with other defendants who, it alleges, were similarly…