Court Opinion

ID: 9418353
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:22:22.901386+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:01.439509
License: Public Domain

Mb. Justice Brandeis,
concurring,
Whether a producer of goods should be permitted to fix by contract, express or implied, the price at which the purchaser may resell them, and if so, under what conditions, is an economic question. To decide it wisely it is *28necessary to consider the relevant facts, industrial and commercial, rather than established legal principles. On that question I have expressed elsewhere views which differ apparently from those entertained by a majority of my brethren. I concur, however, in the answers given herein to all the questions certified; because I consider that the series of cases referred to in the opinion settles the law for this court. If the rule so declared is believed to be harmful in its operation, the remedy may be found, as it has been sought, through application to the Congress or relief may possibly be given by the Federal Trade Commission which has also been applied to.
Mr. Justice Holmes and Mr. Justice Van Devan-ter are of opinion that each of the questions should be answered in the affirmative.