Pacific Molasses Company
Volume 70 · 70 F.T.C. 301
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Pacific Molasses Company, 70 F.T.C. 301 (1966). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v070-0013
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IN THE MATTER OF PACIFIC MOLASSES COMPANY ET AL.
ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF SEC. 2 (a) OF THE CLA YTON ACT Docket 7462. Complaint, April 1959-Decision, August, 1.966 Ordcr dismissing cease and desist order of May 21 , 1964, 65 F. C. 675 , pursuant to a decision and remand of the U. S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, dated Jan. 24 , 196(-;, 356 F. 2d 386 (8 S. &D. 46), a complaint "which charged an importer and distribulor of molasses with price discrimination among its customers.
ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT The Commission s order requiring respondent Pacific Molasses Company and certain of its offcials to cease and desist discriminating in price against certain of its customers in violation of Section 2 (a) of the amended Clayton Act, 15 U. C. 13, having been set aside by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for procedural reasons and remanded to the Commission for further proceedings, if appropriate; and The Commission having considered the relative staleness of the evidence in the record at this point and other relevant factors and having determined that further proceedings, if any, should be directed to respondent' s current pricing practices: It is ordered That the complaint in this matter be, and it hereby is, dismissed without prejudice.
Complaint 70 F.