TOP VALUE MEATS, INC. v. F. T. C.

No. 77-1799.

586 F.2d 1275 (1978)

TOP VALUE MEATS, INC.; Guaranteed Quality Meats, Inc.; Twin City Beef Company; Prime Meats, Inc.; Freezer World, Inc.; and Midwestern Meat Processors, Inc., Appellants, v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; Louis A. Engman; Paul Rand Dixon; Mayo J. Thompson; M. Elizabeth Hanford; Stephen Nye; and F. Kelly Smith, Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. GUARANTEED QUALITY MEATS, INC., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Faltico of Faltico, Bertram, Bony & Associates, Kansas City, Mo., argued, for appellant; James Wyrsch, Kansas City, Mo., on brief.

Denis E. Hynes, Atty., Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D. C., argued, for appellees.

Ronald S. Reed, Jr., U. S. Atty., E. Eugene Harrison, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., John H. Shenefield, Asst. Atty. Gen., Antitrust Div., Charles R. McConachie, Chief, Consumer Affairs Section, James A. Calderwood, Atty., Consumer Affairs Section, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief, for appellees; Michael N. Sohn, Gen. Counsel, Gerald P. Norton, Deputy Gen. Counsel, W. Dennis Cross, Asst. Gen. Counsel, F. T. C., Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, HENLEY, Circuit Judge, and EISELE, Chief District Judge.


HENLEY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment rendered by the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (Senior District Judge William H. Becker) in favor of the Federal Trade Commission in litigation between the Commission and six corporations which are or have been engaged in the freezer meat business in the Kansas City area.1 The corporations are...

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