Federal Trade Commission v. Brown Shoe Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that FTC was within its power to declare as an unfair method of competition the payment of valuable consideration to shoe retailers to “secure a contractual promise ... not [to] purchase conflicting lines of shoes.”
• stating that “[t]his 19 broad power of the [FTC] is particularly well established with regard to trade practices which 20 conflict with the basic policies of the Sherman and Clayton Acts even though such practices may 21 not actually violate these laws”
• FTC has power \to arrest trade restraints in their incipiency without proof that they amount to an outright violation of ... other provisions of the antitrust laws\
• FTC has power “to arrest trade restraints in their incipiency without proof that they amount to an outright violation of ... other provisions of the antitrust laws”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).