SOAP AND DETERGENT ASSOCIATION v. CLARK

No. 71-639-Civ.

330 F.Supp. 1218 (1971)

The SOAP AND DETERGENT ASSOCIATION, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Stephen P. CLARK et al., as members and constituting the Board of County Commissioners of Dade County, Florida, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Florida.

September 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smathers & Thompson, Miami, Fla., Pierson, Ball & Dowd, Washington, D. C., Sibley, Giblin, Levenson & Ward, Miami Beach, Fla., Dinsmore, Shohl, Coates & Deupree, Cincinnati, Ohio, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Stuart Simon, County Atty., Alan T. Dimond, Asst. County Atty., Miami, Fla., for defendants.


ORDER DENYING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

CABOT, District Judge.

On March 30, 1971, the Board of County Commissioners of Dade County, Florida, passed Section 24-44 of the Code of Metropolitan Dade County, as adopted by Ordinance No. 71-31, regulating the sale and use of phosphate detergents in the county. In rapid succession, the plaintiffs in this controversy, the Soap and Detergent Association, a 115-member industry group, later joined by the Colgate Palmolive...

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