Class action antitrust suit against auto manufacturers for conspiratorial elimination of the fleet discount on sales of motor vehicles to government entities.

Case concerning the firing of the director of the Minnesota Restitution Center (operated by the Corrections Department) for ignoring orders to keep two convicted "fences" out of the center's early parole program; sovereign immunity issue.

Antitrust action against four nation-wide manufacturers of master key systems commenced by the state and all of its political sub-divisions. Regarding conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers and territories in violation of antitrust laws.

Case in which liquor retailers alleged liquor wholesalers had conspired to monopolize trade and lessen competition during periods of time since 1940s. The state entered the case as amicus curiae to ensure that the settlement did not have an anticompetitive effect on the state's wholesale liquor industry.

Class action suit concerning major drug companies allegedly conspiring to violate federal antitrust laws by fixing prices of certain broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to combat infections.

Correspondence and memoranda relating to Minnesota’s involvement in a suit brought by the U.S. Justice Department against major automobile manufacturers, accusing them of violating the antitrust laws by agreeing to delay development of anti-pollution devices on cars.

Unlawful fixing of retail prices and territories of distribution for independent retail milk producers in the Twin Cities area.

Antitrust investigation of the pricing of liquid chlorine by repackagers of that product in sales to government agencies in Minnesota.

Correspondence, memoranda, pleadings, depositions, newspaper clippings, and settlement records in antitrust action against this Holland, Michigan, manufacturer of office partitions and several of its local dealers, alleging that they had conspired to allocate and divide the Minnesota market for partitions.

The fine paper antitrust litigation began in 1977, with 15 complaints filed in eight separate District Courts against manufacturers of fine paper products. By 1978, the 15 were consolidated and transferred to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where a federal grand jury was investigating possible antitrust violations in the fine paper industry. Within a year, 23 additional cases were filed and a total of 38 cases were consolidated. The named plaintiffs in the 38 lawsuits were divided into two categories: the Private Plaintiffs, including some Minority States Plaintiffs (including Minnesota), and the state governmental entities known as the Majority States. The Minority States alleged a horizontal conspiracy to fix and raise the process at which fine paper was sold to their customers among 15 named defendants; this involved middlemen and other buyers, such as publishing houses, greeting card companies, printers and commercial and other industrial users. Settlements between the Minority States and the defendants were reached between 1978-1980. The Majority States lost their case in December 1980.

In addition, fee petitions were filed by 41 private law firms and state attorneys general for approximately $21 million in counsel fees and expenses to come out of the $50,560,000 in settlement proceeds. The Minnesota State Attorney General’s Office was awarded $111,948.41.

The records reflect Minnesota’s involvement in the State of Minnesota v Boise Cascade Corporation, et al., and in subsequent fee petitions.

Litigation files concerning whether or not the business of professional baseball was exempt from federal and state antitrust laws. Specifically, the case concerned whether or not the Minnesota Attorney General could enforce compliance with civil investigative demands pursuant to an investigation of potential violations of Minnesota’s antitrust laws based on the proposed sale and relocation of the Minnesota Twins baseball team to North Carolina.

Correspondence between the Office of the Attorney General, Bill Luther, the Major League Baseball Players Association, the Minnesota Twins Partnership, the Shreffler Law Firm P.A., Dorsey & Whitney LLP, and Senator Paul Wellston regarding baseball's antitrust exemption and the Curt Flood Act of 1997.