Legal Opinion
Standard Oil Company v. Robert K. Brown, Doing Business as Bob Brown's Standard Service
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 6, 1956No. 16093_1PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.
The decision of this case depends on the question whether the proviso in Section 2(b) of the Clayton Act as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act 1 which, following a prohibition against selling at a discriminatorily lower price to a purchaser, permits the seller to defend by showing that his lower price “was made in good faith to meet an equally low price of a competitor” is to be construed as if it were written “was made in good faith to meet a lawful equally low price.”
The plaintiff below, a purchaser from the defendant Standard Oil Company, charged that Company with…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Standard Oil Co. v. Federal Trade CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Federal Trade Commission v. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Finn v. American Fire & Casualty Co. American Fire & Casualty Co. v. FinnCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1953
- Marshall's U. S. Auto Supply, Inc. v. CashmanCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1940
- Standard Oil Co. v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1949
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- J. T. Majors & Son, Inc. v. Lippert Bros., Inc., Lippert Bros., Inc., Cross-Appellant v. J. T. Majors & Son, Inc., Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1958
- Wiggs v. CourshonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- National Dairy Products Corporation v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1968
- Surprise Brassiere Co., Inc. v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
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