Thompson-Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission

WELLFORD, Circuit Judge.

Having previously detailed the factual background and issues involved in this difficult and unusual case, see In Re Detroit Auto Dealers Ass’n, 955 F.2d 457 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 973, 113 S.Ct. 461, 121 L.Ed.2d 369 (1992), we provide only a curso*789ry review of the facts here. In 1973, a large number of automobile dealerships in the Detroit, Michigan area agreed to close their showrooms on Saturdays and to otherwise uniformly reduce their hours of operation in response to the demands of their sales employees and the efforts of various unions to organize these…