Legal Opinion
United States v. Papercraft Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 9, 1976No. 75-2052PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to review a civil penalty assessed against Papercraft Corporation for failure to comply with a divestiture order of the Federal Trade Commission. The district court set the penalty at $7,500 for each of 509 days of determined noncompliance — for a total penalty of $3,817,50o. 1 We reverse and remand.
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As the case comes to us, the historical facts are not in dispute. In late 1967, Papercraft acquired the stock of CPS Industries, Inc. In 1969, the FTC issued a complaint alleging that the acquisition violated § 7 of the Clayton…
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