Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit November 9, 1979, No. 78-1896 (Three J Farms, Inc. v. Alton Box Board Co.)

FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge:

Commencing in March of 1977, in the wake of a federal grand jury investigation in the Southern District of Texas, a number of actions were filed in various federal courts throughout the country against corrugated container manufacturers, including all of the defendants in the present case, alleging that they had violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.