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Regulation Of Business--Robinson-Patman Act--Defenses Of In Pari Delicto And Changed Market Conditions, William K. Davenport Apr 1952

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 …


Interstate Commerce - Taxation Of Motor Vehicles In Interstate Transportation For Sale Nov 1936

Interstate Commerce - Taxation Of Motor Vehicles In Interstate Transportation For Sale

Michigan Law Review

A New Mexico statute exacts a flat permit fee for the privilege of transporting motor vehicles, on their own wheels, over the highways of the state, for purpose of sale within or without the state. Held, this does not impose an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce nor does it discriminate against a citizen of another state engaged in transporting automobiles on their own wheels, in processions or caravans, for sale outside of New Mexico. Morf v. Bingaman, (U.S. 1936) 56 S. Ct. 756.