State of Arizona v. Shamrock Foods Company, an Arizona Corporation and Beatrice Foods Company, an Illinois Corporation, Darryll J. Alton v. Shamrock Foods Company, an Arizona Corporation, and Beatrice Foods Company, an Illinois Corporation

729 F.2d 1208 1984-1 Trade Cases 65,927 STATE OF ARIZONA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHAMROCK FOODS COMPANY, an Arizona corporation; and Beatrice Foods Company, an Illinois corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Darryll J. ALTON, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SHAMROCK FOODS COMPANY, an Arizona corporation, and Beatrice Foods Company, an Illinois corporation, Defendants-Appellees. No. 82-5875. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 13, 1983. Decided April 3, 1984. As Amended June 21, 1984. J. Michael Hennigan, Bretz & Hennigan, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant. Charles R. Hoover, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, Scottsdale, Ariz., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Before KENNEDY and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges, and EAST, * Senior District Judge. BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge. 1 This is an action by five certified classes against several Arizona dairy product producers alleging a wholesale price-fixing conspiracy. During the course of the suit, all claims were settled except those by the consumer class against Shamrock Foods Co. and another producer joined six years after…