Legal Opinion

Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 31, 1941No. 537PublishedCited by 586 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black

The Circuit Court of Appeals, with modifications not here challenged, affirmed a Federal Trade Commission decree ordering petitioners to cease and desist from certain practices found to have been done in combination and to constitute “unfair methods of competition” tending to monopoly. Determination of the correctness of the decision below requires consideration of the Sherman, Clayton, and Federal Trade Commission Acts.

Some of the members of the combination design, manufacture, sell and distribute women’s garments — chiefly dresses. Others are manufacturers, converters or dyers of textiles…

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