CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - DUE PROCESS - PRICE REGULATION - PROHIBITION OF SALES BELOW COST

Authors

George W. Loomis, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Defendant was indicted for alleged violation of the Pennsylvania Fair Sales Act, which prohibits the "advertisement, offer for sale, or sale of any merchandise at less than cost by retailers or wholesalers," and makes violation of the act a misdemeanor. His motion to quash the indictment was sustained by the court of the quarter sessions and affirmed by the superior court, and the state appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Held, affirming, that the statute violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment since it is not within the power of the state to prohibit sales below cost in general but only those designed for predatory purposes. Commonwealth v. Zasloff, 338 Pa. 457, 13 A. (2d) 67 (1940).

Recommended Citation

George W. Loomis, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - DUE PROCESS - PRICE REGULATION - PROHIBITION OF SALES BELOW COST, 40 Mich. L. Rev. 287 (1941).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol40/iss2/9