FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp.

FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp.
FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp.
	Supreme Court of the United States
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
	Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas; Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II; William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart; Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
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

^ 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.

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[1] FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp., 380 U.S. 592 (1965)

[2] Mishkin, Paul J. (1965). "The Supreme Court, 1964 Term". Harvard Law Review. 79 (1): 181. doi:10.2307/1338859. ISSN 0017-811X.

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