[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 119 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 31120]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15493]



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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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