Court Opinion

ID: 9424806
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:12:48.010292+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:50.692625
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Blackmun,
concurring in the result.
The conclusion the Court reaches has its anomalous aspects, for surely, as the District Court’s findings make clear, today’s decision in the Government’s favor will tend to stultify Topeo members’ competition with the great and larger chains. The bigs, therefore, should find it easier to get bigger and, as a consequence, reality *613seems at odds with the public interest. The per se rule, however, now appears to be so firmly established by the Court that, at this late date, I could not oppose it. Relief, if any is to be forthcoming, apparently must be by way of legislation.