Legal Opinion
Federal Trade Commission v. Simplicity Pattern Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 12, 1959No. 406PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
This case presents, for the first time in this Court, issues relating to the availability of certain defenses to a prima facie violation of § 2 (e) of the Clayton Act, 38 Stat. 730, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, 49 Stat. 1526. The Federal Trade Commission has found that Simplicity Pattern Co., Inc., one of the Nation’s largest dress pattern manufacturers, discriminated in favor of its larger customers by furnishing to them services and facilities not accorded to competing. smaller customers on proportionally equal terms. The Commission held that neither the presence of “cost…
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