United States v. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BATTISTI, Chief Judge.

In this civil antitrust suit, the Government charges that from about 1959 to date defendant Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, an Ohio corporation, has engaged in numerous activities designed to secure a monopoly in the manufacture and sale of replacement tires, in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2, and has made certain corporate acquisitions between 1959 and 1967 violative of Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 18.

Defendant, in its answer, has interposed as a “First Affirmative Defense”: “Plaintiff is not entitled to…