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- Title: Foremost Dairies Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 14, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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The petitioner, Foremost Dairies, Inc., is a processor, manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of dairy products in interstate commerce. As of June 1959 it owned and operated 59 processing plants in 24 states and maintained 182 sales, receiving and distribution facilities in 29 states. On May 23, 1963, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Foremost to cease and desist from discriminating "in the price of fluid milk of like grade and quality by selling to any purchaser at net prices higher than the net prices charged any other purchaser who competes with the purchaser paying the higher price." This order, which was premised on the Commissions finding of unjustified discrimination in the wholesale prices that Foremost charged in its sales of fluid milk in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, market, is before us for review. The petition presents three questions for our consideration: (1) whether the Commission properly found a "purchase in commerce" within the meaning of the Act; (2) whether the Commissions inference of a probable competitive injury was supported by substantial evidence; (3) whether the order entered by the Commission was too sweeping in light of the nature of the particular activities which it found transgressed the Act.