Court Opinion

ID: 9453743
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Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:22:30.410846+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:46.949310
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On Petition for Rehearing
Before HAMLEY, KOELSCH and DUNIWAY, Circuit Judges.
Perkins’ petition for rehearing is denied. Essentially it is nothing more than a repetition of arguments concerning assignments, which we are satisfied were all adequately considered and correctly passed upon by our written opinion. However, one particular point is not unworthy of brief current comment.
Because Perkins or the Perkins corporations operated or were interested in a few retail service stations, in addition to the wholesale distribution which comprised by far the greater part of their business, we believed it useful to point out that on retrial any recovery on their 2(d) and 2(e) claims for allowances and services proportional to any Standard made to its branded dealers on the retail level should not reflect Perkins’ wholesale distribution.
The validity of our cautionary observation that under section 2(d) and its companion 2(e) a seller’s obligation for such matters is limited to customers *818who compete with each other on the same level of distribution is in no wise weakened by the Supreme Court’s recent reversal of F.T.C. v. Fred Meyer, Inc., 359 F.2d 351 (9th Cir. 1966) reversed 390 U.S. 341, 88 S.Ct. 904, 19 L.Ed.2d 1222 (1968), the decision upon which we relied. To the contrary, its validity is finally confirmed and settled beyond dispute, for in Meyer the court opined:
“We cannot assume without a clear indication from Congress that § 2(d) was intended to compel the supplier to pay the allowances to a reseller further up the distributive chain who might or might not pass them on to the level where the impact would be felt directly. We conclude that the most reasonable construction of § 2(d) is one which places on the supplier the responsibility for making promotional allowances available to those resellers who compete directly with the favored buyer.” (p. 357).