Brown Shoe Co. v. United States
E530384
Brown Shoe Co. v. United States is a 1962 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case that set influential but controversial standards for evaluating vertical and conglomerate mergers under the Clayton Act.
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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antitrust case ⓘ merger case ⓘ |
| aroseFrom | proposed merger of Brown Shoe Company and G.R. Kinney Company ⓘ |
| hasAreaOfLaw |
antitrust law
ⓘ
competition law ⓘ corporate law ⓘ merger control ⓘ |
| hasChiefJusticeInMajority | Earl Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCitation |
370 U.S. 294
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8 L. Ed. 2d 510 ⓘ 82 S. Ct. 1502 ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasCourt | Supreme Court of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDecisionType | majority opinion ⓘ |
| hasDocketNumber | No. 4 ⓘ |
| hasHolding |
Congress intended to arrest anticompetitive tendencies in their incipiency
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Section 7 of the Clayton Act is concerned with probabilities, not certainties, of anticompetitive effects ⓘ relevant market must be determined by practical indicia, not abstract economic theory alone ⓘ the proposed merger violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
shoe manufacturing
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shoe retailing ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | federal jurisdiction ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
conglomerate effects
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incipiency doctrine NERFINISHED ⓘ line of commerce ⓘ practical indicia of market definition ⓘ section of the country ⓘ substantial lessening of competition ⓘ trend toward concentration ⓘ vertical foreclosure ⓘ |
| hasLegalIssue |
definition of relevant geographic market
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definition of relevant product market ⓘ incipiency standard in merger control ⓘ legality of horizontal merger under Section 7 of the Clayton Act ⓘ legality of vertical merger under Section 7 of the Clayton Act ⓘ role of market share and concentration in merger analysis ⓘ |
| hasLowerCourt | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorityOpinionBy | Earl Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPetitioner | Brown Shoe Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProceduralPosture | direct appeal by the United States from a district court decree approving the merger with conditions ⓘ |
| hasRespondent | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVote | 8–1 ⓘ |
| involvesStatute |
Clayton Act
NERFINISHED
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Section 7 of the Clayton Act NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherman Antitrust Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCharacterizedAs | influential but controversial precedent on vertical and conglomerate mergers ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
articulating detailed standards for merger analysis under Section 7 of the Clayton Act
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emphasizing congressional intent to preserve small, locally owned businesses ⓘ influencing later Supreme Court merger decisions ⓘ |
| wasArguedOn |
1961-11-28
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1961-11-29 ⓘ |
| wasDecidedOn | 1962-06-25 ⓘ |
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