United States v. Morton Salt Co.

This is a controversy as to the power of the Federal Trade Commission to require corporations to file reports showing how they have complied with a decree of the Court of Appeals enforcing the Commission’s cease and desist order, in addition to those reports required by the decree itself.

Proceedings under § 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act 1 culminated in a Commission order requiring respondents Morton Salt Company and International Salt Company, together with eighteen other salt producers and a trade association, to cease and desist from stated practices in connection with the pricing,…