Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit May 4, 1970, 18008 (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Honorable Bernard M. Decker, United States District Judge)

PER CURIAM.

In more than forty separate antitrust actions brought in eight judicial districts, plaintiffs, state and local governments, public schools, and public libraries, sought damages from twenty-three defendants (petitioners here), publishers and wholesalers, for alleged conspiracies to inflate the prices for children’s editions of library books. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C.