The B. F. Goodrich Company and the Texas Company

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THE B. F. GOODRICH COMPANY AND THE TEXAS

COMPANY

Docket 6485. Order, June 18, 1965 Order vacating an earlier order and setting time for reargument of the case. 2 Respondent’s motion of June 7, 1965, p. 3. (Emphasis in the original.) one of the respondents filed a motion requesting that oral reargument be deferred pending the Supreme Court’s disposition of petitions for rehearing in Atlantic Refining Co. v. F.T.C. [7 S. & D. 1238], and further requesting leave to file a brief. And in a telegram dated June 17, 1965, counsel “renew[ed] our motion to defer argument until after disposition of Atlantic-Goodyear petition for rehearing and until parties have reasonable time to brief matter prior to any argument that may take place.”

The motion for leave to file brief is moot, in view of the Commission’s order of June 18, 1965, providing for the filing of briefs. The requests for a postponement of oral reargument and filing of briefs must, we think, be denied. The complaint in this matter was issued on January 11, 1956 [62 F.T.C. 1172], more than nine years ago, and respondents continually urged that the case be completed expeditiously, and without unnecessary delay.t The Supreme Court directed that this case be remanded to the Commission “immediately” and that its own judgment “shall issue forthwith.” In the circumstances, the public interest would not be served by further postponements. Should the Supreme Court grant the petitions for rehearing filed in the Atlantic Refining Co. case, there will be time enough for such further proceedings in the present case as may be appropriate in light of the Supreme Court’s action. Finally, consideration of the merits of the appeals will be furthered by permitting briefs to be filed after oral reargument. Accordingly, It ts ordered, That the motion for postponement of oral reargument and filing of briefs be, and it hereby is, denied and that the motion for leave to file briefs be, and it hereby is, dismissed as moot. Commissioners Dixon and MacIntyre not participating. + At one point the respondents sought in federal district court to enjoin further Commission proceedings on the ground of undue delay. 13898

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