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Sperry and Hutchinson Company

Volume 82 · 82 F.T.C. 388

Citation
82 F.T.C. 388
Docket
8671
Decision
1973-02-16
Document type
final order
Case type
antitrust
Statutes
FTC Act (section 5)
Industry
trading stamp business
Outcome
cease and desist
Relief
cease_and_desist; compliance_reporting
Source
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Sperry and Hutchinson Company, 82 F.T.C. 388 (1973). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v082-0039

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IN THE MATTER OF THE SPERRY AND HUTCHINSON COMPANY ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 8671, Final Order, February 16, 1978. Order reaffirming previous Commission order, 73 F.T.C. 1099, as to Counts I and II of the complaint and requiring respondent, among other things to cease setting a maximum number of stamps to be dispensed by its retail licensees in relation to the purchases by such retailers’ customers and conspiring with others to enforce its policy of limitation. FINAL ORDER Whereas, The Commission issued its original order in this case on June 26, 1968, [73 F.T.C. 1099,1226] from which respondent appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, seeking review of the issues relating to Count III of the complaint herein, and Whereas, The Fifth Circuit reviewed the issues relating to Count III of the complaint, respondent having abandoned any challenge to those portions of the order relating to Counts I and II of the complaint, and Whereas, The Commission petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from its decision adverse to the Commission, and Whereas, The Supreme Court granted said writ and, upon its review of the issues relating to Count III of the complaint, 388 : FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION DECISIONS Final Order 82 FLTC.

It is further ordered, That the respondents herein shall within ' sixty (60) days after service upon them of this order, file with the Commission a report in writing setting forth in detail the manner and form in which they have complied with this order. - It is further ordered, That respondents shall notify-the Commission at least thirty (30) days prior to any proposed change in their business organization such as dissolution, assignment, incorporation or sale resulting in the emergence of a successor corporation or partnership or any other change which may affect compliance obligations arising out of this order.

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