Legal Opinion
Lieberman v. Federal Trade Commission
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 20, 1985No. 1036, Docket 85-6023PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
On a difficult question of statutory interpretation, seldom does a court of appeals have the benefit, as we do in this case, of guidance from two cogent, well-reasoned opinions going in opposite directions. The difficulty of the question is revealed not only in the direct conflict between these two decisions, but also in the three-to-two decision of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”), the administrative agency that deals with the statute we must interpret. The question is whether section 7A(h) of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 18a(h) (1982), enacted as…
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