Donald F. Turner was a notable antitrust

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 attorney

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 and professor

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 at Harvard Law School

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. He headed antitrust division at the United States

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 Department of Justice

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 under Lyndon Baines Johnson. He clerked for Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Clark. He died in 1994 from Alzheimer's disease

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Upon his death, Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote his obituary on his legal career. (Volume 41, Antitrust Bulletin, pages 725-727 (1996)) Breyer wrote that Turner was Breyer's first post-clerkship employer.

He is celebrated for his 1956 article on the so-called Cellophane Case against the duPont company (Harvard Law Review

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Volume 70, No. 2 Dec 1956 pp. 281-318). It marked the first time economic analysis was well publicized to analyse antitrust law for the non-economist public.