Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation v. Federal Trade Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that government must show by a preponderance of the evidence a reasonable probability of lessening of competition within a relevant market
• noting that “[f]inancial weakness, while perhaps relevant in some cases, is probably the weakest ground of all for justifying a merger” and “certainly cannot be the primary justification” for permitting one
• \History records and common sense indicates that the creation of monopoly and the loss of competition involve the acquisition of the small and the weak by the big and the strong.\
• “History records and common sense indicates that the creation of monopoly and the loss of competition involve the acquisition of the small and the weak by the big and the strong.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).