Case Details

Year Initiated/Committed

1999

Year Resolved

2000

Settlement Amount

$1.1 million

Court

Circuit Court for Baltimore City

Docket Number

24-C-99-004904

Lead State

MD

Participating States

MD

Defendant(s)

Ft. Howard Corporation, Wisconsin Tissue Mills, Inc., (A Division of Chesapeake Corp.) Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Georgia-pacific Corporation, James River Corporation of Virginia, Bay West Paper Corporation, Encore Paper Company, Inc., Marcal Paper Mills, Inc., Cascade Industries, Inc., and Scott Paper Company, Inc. (Now Merged with Kimberly-Clark Corporation).

Case Description

Related to Florida’s Sanitary Paper case – price-fixing among manufacturers of sanitary paper products (tissue, napkins, etc. used in commercial or institutional context).See Florida description in In re Sanitary Paper Products Antitrust Litigation, McGraw v. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, et al., No. 99-C-2349 (Cir. Ct. Kanawha Cty. 2000)