Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Winckler & Smith Citrus Products Co.

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Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Winckler & Smith Citrus Products Co.

368 U.S. 813, 82 S. Ct. 56

CourtSupreme Court of the United States

DecidedOctober 9, 1961

Docket241

StatusPublished

This text of 368 U.S. 813 (Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Winckler & Smith Citrus Products Co.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of the United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Winckler & Smith Citrus Products Co., 368 U.S. 813, 82 S. Ct. 56 (1961).

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Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition, which reads as follows:

“1. Where a group of citrus fruit growers form a cooperative organization for the purpose of collectively processing and marketing their fruit, and carry out those functions through the agency of three cooperative agricultural associations, each of which is basically wholly owned and governed by those growers, and each of which is admittedly entitled to the exemption from the antitrust laws accorded to agricultural cooperatives by the Capper-Volstead Act (7 U. S. C. A., sec. 291) — is an unlawful conspiracy, combination or agreement established under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act upon proof only that these growers, through the agency of these three cooperatives, agreed among only themselves with respect to the extent of the division of the function of processing between them or with respect to the price they would charge in the open market for the fruit and the by-products thereof processed and marketed by them?”

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Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition, which reads as follows:

“1. Where a group of citrus fruit growers form a cooperative organization for the purpose of collectively processing and marketing their fruit, and carry out those functions through the agency of three cooperative agricultural associations, each of which is basically wholly owned and governed by those growers, and each of which is admittedly entitled to the exemption from the antitrust laws accorded to agricultural cooperatives by the Capper-Volstead Act (7 U. S. C. A., sec. 291) — is an unlawful conspiracy, combination or agreement established under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act upon proof only that these growers, through the agency of these three cooperatives, agreed among only themselves with respect to the extent of the division of the function of processing between them or with respect to the price they would charge in the open market for the fruit and the by-products thereof processed and marketed by them?”

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368 U.S. 813, 82 S. Ct. 56, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/sunkist-growers-inc-v-winckler-smith-citrus-products-co-scotus-1961.