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UNITED STATES v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 21911.

286 F.Supp. 407 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and the Electric Autolite Company, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Michigan, S. D.

June 7, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. McManus, Lawrence F. Noble, Lawrence M. Jolliffe, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Wright Tisdale, Richard B. Darragh, Dearborn, Mich., Jerome G. Shapiro, L. Homer Surbeck, David B. Hudnut, William T. Holcomb, Jr., Everett J. Haller, David A. Diamond, Hughes, Hubbard, Blair & Reed, New York City, George E. Brand, Jr., Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy, Detroit, Mich., for Ford Motor Company.

A. Stewart Kerr, P. Joseph Pascoff, Sweeny, Dodd, Kerr, Wattles & Russell, Detroit, Mich., for the Electric Autolite Company ELTRA Corporation).

OPINION

FREEMAN, Chief Judge.

This is a Government divestiture action under Clayton Act, § 7, as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 18, challenging the 1961 purchase, for 28 million dollars, of select assets of Electric Autolite Company by Ford Motor Company, the nation's second-largest producer of mechanized vehicles, with annual sales then exceeding two million units and resources approaching four billion dollars.1

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