The State : Clothing Refunds Slated

Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp said his office will begin sending checks to those who claimed refunds in the Levi Strauss price-fixing settlement. Checks averaging $14 will go to 816,348 claimants--about 65% of those who originally claimed refunds. Van de Kamp said his office is also trying to locate the other claimants, whose current addresses are not on file. Levi Strauss paid $12.5 million into a reimbursement fund as part of the out-of-court settlement of the attorney general’s 1978 class-action suit charging that the firm had pressured retailers during the 1970s to maintain their price of Levi Strauss garments at an artificially high level.