The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 (26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1–7) is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among...
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of the Clayton Act has been developed and animated by the U.S. courts, particularly the Supreme Court. Since the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, courts...
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The three main U.S. antitrust statutes are the Sherman Act of 1890, the Clayton Act of 1914, and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914. These acts...
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United States v. Microsoft Corp. (redirect from Microsoft antitrust case)
actions constituted unlawful monopolization under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit partially...
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Antitrust Act can refer to: The Sherman Antitrust Act, first United States federal government action to limit monopolies Sherman Antitrust Act (federal...
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The history of United States antitrust law is generally taken to begin with the Sherman Antitrust Act 1890, although some form of policy to regulate competition...
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Standard Oil (section Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890)
the U.S. Justice Department sued Standard under federal antitrust law, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, for sustaining a monopoly and restraining interstate...
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and the regulation of interstate commerce. Sherman was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which was signed into law by President Benjamin...
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Bork was wrong in his analysis of the legislative intent of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and have criticized him for incorrect economic assumptions...
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the Sherman Antitrust Act. Harrison also facilitated the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891...
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De Beers (section Sherman Antitrust Act)
II, Ernest Oppenheimer attempted to negotiate a way around the Sherman Antitrust Act by proposing that De Beers register a US branch of the Diamond Syndicate...
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Presidency of Benjamin Harrison (section Antitrust law)
Tariff, which imposed historic protective trade rates, and the Sherman Antitrust Act, which empowered the federal government to investigate and prosecute...
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General Motors streetcar conspiracy (section Urban Mass Transportation Act and 1974 Antitrust hearings)
own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. This suit created lingering suspicions that the defendants had...
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Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California (category United States antitrust case law)
countries could nevertheless be held liable for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act if they conspired to restrain trade within the United States, and...
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Federal Baseball Club v. National League (category United States antitrust case law)
(1922), is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply to Major League Baseball. After the Federal League...
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United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (category United States antitrust case law)
Supreme Court antitrust case that severely limited the federal government's power to pursue antitrust actions under the Sherman Antitrust Act. In Chief Justice...
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can't handle men." In 1912, NCR was found guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. Patterson, Watson and 26 other NCR executives and managers were...
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inspiration and motivation for this act started in 1890, when the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed. There was a strong antitrust movement to prevent manufacturers...
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Loewe v. Lawlor (category United States antitrust case law)
application of antitrust laws to labor unions. The Court's decision effectively outlawed the secondary boycott as a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, despite...
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United States v. Google LLC (2023) (category United States antitrust case law)
violation of sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The suit is separate from the first antitrust case launched in 2020 that accuses Google...
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United States v. Google LLC (2020) (category United States antitrust case law)
October 20, 2020. The suit alleges that Google has violated the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by illegally monopolizing the search engine and search advertising...
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generally recognized as an early antitrust cartoon that played a role in the development of the Sherman Antitrust Act. According to the Senate, The Bosses...
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Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. § 1). ADM entered into a plea agreement in which ADM pleaded guilty to both antitrust counts and agreed...
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SLNS Gajabahu (P626) (redirect from USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720))
United States Secretary of the Treasury and author of the Sherman Antitrust Act. CGC Sherman's keel was laid on January 25, 1967 at Avondale Shipyards in...
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Competition law (redirect from Antitrust law)
It is also known as antitrust law (or just antitrust), anti-monopoly law, and trade practices law; the act of pushing for antitrust measures or attacking...
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pipeline transport. More threatening to Standard's power was the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, originally used to control unions, but later central to...
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Big Tech (section Antitrust efforts)
ruled that Microsoft's actions constituted monopolization under the Sherman Antitrust Act, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed most...
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Rule of reason (category United States antitrust law)
legal doctrine used to interpret the Sherman Antitrust Act, one of the cornerstones of United States antitrust law. While some actions like price-fixing...
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pricing. Monopolization is a federal crime under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. It has a specific legal meaning, which is parallel to the...
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Court of the United States found the company to be violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. The subsequent decision splintered the company into 34 "baby Standards...
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