E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. v. F.T.C.

Nos. 413, 414, Dockets 83-4102, 83-4106.

729 F.2d 128 (1984)

E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Respondent. ETHYL CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Gribbon, Washington, D.C. (Allan J. Topol, Jeffrey E. Stake, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., W.E. MacIntyre, G.E. Kandler, Wilmington, Del., of counsel), for petitioner E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.

David F. Peters, Richmond, Va. (Joseph C. Carter, Jr., Thomas G. Slater, Jr., William F. Young, Donald R. Schmidt, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., E. Whitehead Elmore, Richmond, Va., of counsel), for petitioner Ethyl Corp.

Howard E. Shapiro, Deputy Gen. Counsel, F.T.C., Washington, D.C. (John H. Carley, Gen. Counsel, Thomas J. Keary, Stephen C. Palmer, Peter M. Kazon, Frederick E. Dooley, Attys., F.T.C., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for respondent F.T.C.

Chadwell & Kayser, Ltd., Chicago, Ill. (James F. Lambe, Gen. Counsel, Champ W. Davis, Jr., David C. Bogan, Oak Brook, Ill., of counsel), for amicus curiae Nalco Chemical Co.

Roger Boyle, New York City (Boyle, Vogeler & Haimes, New York City, David Crump, Houston, Tex., of counsel), for amicus curiae The Legal Foundation of America.

Miles W. Kirkpatrick, Washington, D.C. (Michael S. Kelly, Michael F. Clayton, Washington, D.C., John W. Thomas, Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel), for amicus curiae PPG Industries, Inc.

Before LUMBARD, MANSFIELD and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.


MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company ("Du Pont") and Ethyl Corporation ("Ethyl"), the nation's two largest manufacturers of lead antiknock gasoline additives, petition this court pursuant to § 5(c) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45(c), to review and set aside a final order of the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") entered with an accompanying opinion on April 1, 1983. The FTC held that Du Pont, Ethyl and two other...

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