Court Opinion

ID: 9459879
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:34:15.565047+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:22.545500
License: Public Domain

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge,
(concurring).
While I concur in the court’s opinion, it is with reluctance that I approve of the remedy which has been imposed. Considering the frequency and magnitude of defendant-appellant’s transgressions in this ease, the mere imposition of a fine falls far short of a satisfactory outcome. Ordinarily a divestiture of the wrongfully acquired businesses would be the proper remedy, both to fulfill the objective of the antitrust laws, and to deter the defendant-appellant and other similarly-situated entities from commit*22ting such abuses in the future. Ford Motor Co. v. United States, 405 U.S. 562, 573, 92 S.Ct. 1142, 31 L.Ed.2d 492 (1972); United States v. El Paso Natural Gas Co., 376 U.S. 651, 84 S.Ct. 1044, 12 L.Ed.2d 12 (1964); United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., 366 U.S. 316, 328-335, 81 S.Ct. 1243, 6 L.Ed.2d 318 (1961); Schine Chain Theatres v. United States, 334 U.S. 110, 128, 68 S.Ct. 947, 92 L.Ed. 1245 (1948); United States v. Crescent Amusement Co., 323 U.S. 173, 189, 65 S.Ct. 254, 89 L.Ed. 160 (1944); United States v. Beatrice Foods Co., 351 F.Supp. 969 (D.Minn.1972). However, I have concluded that because of deficiencies in the consent decree and other factual characteristics of this case, the result reached, while weak, is within the range of remedies the trial court may impose. On this basis I agree with the result.