CHRYSLER CORPORATION v. RHODES

No. 7283.

416 F.2d 319 (1969)

CHRYSLER CORPORATION, and Chrysler Motors Corporation, Appellants, v. Robert W. RHODES, Fred L. Johnson, and Frederick L. Clarke, Jr., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided June 26, 1969.

Rehearing Denied July 25, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Ackerly, Washington, D. C., with whom W. Stranfield Johnson, Warren F. Farr, Lane McGovern, Boston, Mass., Sellers, Conner & Cuneo, Washington, D. C., and Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

Norman E. D'Amours, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom George S. Pappagianis, Atty. Gen., was on brief, for appellees.

William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Morton Hollander and Leonard Schaitman, Attys., Dept. of Justice, on brief, for United States as amicus curiae.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Chrysler Corporation brings this appeal seeking reversal of a decision by the federal district court for the District of New Hampshire which upheld the right of the state of New Hampshire to prohibit the sale of cars equipped with "Super Lite".1 The State of New Hampshire notified all automobile dealers within its borders that cars equipped with "Super Lite" might not pass inspection, and at the same time the state...

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