Federal Trade Commission v. Food Town Stores, Inc., and Lowe's Food Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• Congress enacted section 13(b) to preserve status quo until FTC can perform its function
• “The fact that the markets in which the firms compete may be small is irrelevant under the Clayton Act, and does-.not affect the legality of the merger.”
• “The district court is not authorized to determine whether the antitrust laws have been or are about to be violated. That adjudicatory function is vested in the FTC in the first instance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).