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Regulation Of Business--Robinson-Patman Act--Defenses Of In Pari Delicto And Changed Market Conditions, William K. Davenport
Regulation Of Business--Robinson-Patman Act--Defenses Of In Pari Delicto And Changed Market Conditions, William K. Davenport
Michigan Law Review
A group of businessmen in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, organized a boycott against all bread except that baked by plaintiff, the sole baker in Santa Rosa, to induce him not to move his bakery out of town; plaintiff agreed to this plan. Defendant, who sold in interstate commerce, thereupon halved his bread prices in Santa Rosa while maintaining them in other towns, in order to defeat the boycott and preserve the town as a market. Plaintiff brought an action for treble damages under section 2(a) of the Robinson-Patman Act for injuries suffered from this price discrimination. The federal district court …