Legal Opinion
J. Truett Payne Co. v. Chrysler Motors Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1981No. 79-1944PublishedCited by 336 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
The question presented in this case is the appropriate measure of damages in a suit brought under § 2 (a) of the Clayton Act, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act.1
Petitioner, for several decades a Chrysler-Plymouth dealer in Birmingham, Ala., went out of business in 1974. It subsequently brought suit against respondent in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, alleging that from January 1970 to May 1974 respondent’s various “sales incentive” programs violated §2 (a). Under one type of program, respondent assigned to each participating dealer a sales objective…
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