Santa Clara County Motor Car Dealers Association; Prohibited Trade Practices, and Affirmative Corrective Actions

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

[Docket No. C-3630]

Santa Clara County Motor Car Dealers Association; Prohibited

Trade Practices, and Affirmative Corrective Actions

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Consent order.

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SUMMARY: In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting

unfair or deceptive acts or practices and unfair methods of

competition, this consent order prohibits, among other things, a

California association from carrying out, participating in, inducing or

assisting any boycott or concerted refusal to deal with any newspaper,

periodical, television or radio station, and requires the association

to amend its by-laws to incorporate the stipulated prohibition, and to

distribute the amended by-laws and the final Commission order to each

of its members.

DATES: Complaint and Order issued December 13, 1995.\1\

\1\ Copies of the Complaint and the Decision and Order are

available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 6th

Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ralph Stone, San Francisco Regional Office, Federal Trade Commission,

901 Market St., Suite 570, San Francisco, CA. 94103. (415) 356-5270.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On Friday, August 4, 1995, there was

published in the Federal Register, 60 FR 39959, a proposed consent

agreement with analysis In the Matter of Santa Clara County Motor Car

Dealers Association, for the purpose of soliciting public comment.

Interested parties were given sixty (60) days in which to submit

comments, suggestions or objections regarding the proposed form of the

order.

No comments having been received, the Commission has ordered the

issuance of the complaint in the form contemplated by the agreement,

made its jurisdictional findings and entered an order to cease and

desist, as set forth in the proposed consent agreement, in disposition

of this proceeding.

(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interprets or applies sec. 5,

38 Stat. 719, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 45)

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96-15493 Filed 6-18-96; 8:45 am]

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