A. E. Staley Mfg. Co. v. Federal Trade Commission

MINTON, Circuit Judge.

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company and the Staley Sales Corporation charging them with a violation of Section 2(a) of the Clayton Act, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 13(a).1 The Commission claimed that the discriminations which the *222petitioners practiced in violation of the above statute arose from the Staley companies’ practices of applying the basing point system in formulating their prices and of permitting favored customers unfair use of the so-called “booking” privileges. The Commission…