THE PATMAN ACT IN PRACTICE

Authors

Blackwell Smith, Member of the bars of the state of New York and of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Abstract

A recent act of Congress directed against price discrimination and related phases of buying and selling has already become famous as the Robinson-Patman Act, so named for its two principal sponsors in Congress. This act has been much written about, and yet those whose law practice confronts them with daily problems in its application to the actuality of the business world find daily new aspects. The act has something to say with reference to every business transaction (in or related sufficiently to interstate commerce) which involves a price or a service or a facility in connection with the sale of a commodity. Business actuality is so varied that the important problems already seriously studied by practitioners under this act in a little over six months would be sketchily treated in anything short of a treatise of hundreds of pages.

Recommended Citation

Blackwell Smith, THE PATMAN ACT IN PRACTICE, 35 Mich. L. Rev. 705 (1937).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol35/iss5/2