FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp.
Appearance
FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp. | |
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Decided April 28, 1965 | |
Full case name | FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp. |
Citations | 380 U.S. 592 (more) |
Holding | |
A court may consider post-acquisition evidence of the effect of a merger upon market competition when determining whether a merger violated antitrust law, but that consideration must not be conclusive on its own. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinion | |
Majority | Douglass |
Laws applied | |
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 |
FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp., 380 U.S. 592 (1965), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a court may consider post-acquisition evidence of the effect of a merger upon market competition when determining whether a merger violated antitrust law, but that consideration must not be conclusive on its own.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp., 380 U.S. 592 (1965)
- ^ Mishkin, Paul J. (1965). "The Supreme Court, 1964 Term". Harvard Law Review. 79 (1): 181. doi:10.2307/1338859. ISSN 0017-811X.