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Supreme Court· 5/27/1940

Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader

Citations

  • 310 U.S. 469
  • 60 S. Ct. 982
  • 84 L. Ed. 1311
  • 1940 U.S. LEXIS 1048
  • 128 A.L.R. 1044
  • 6 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 647

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that violent union take over of factory did not implicate antitrust laws
  • explaining that the Sherman Act was enacted to prevent “restraints to free competition in business and commercial transactions”
  • congressional failure to alter an Act following judicial construction indicates that the judicial construction is the correct interpretation
  • Sherman Act designed to prevent restraints of trade which have significant effect on business competition
  • failure to overrule case law extending Sherman Act protections to labor unions indicated legislative endorsement of the case law
  • prior to Sherman Act, agreements to fix prices “gave rise to no actionable wrong”

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Judges: Stone, Hughes, McReynolds, Roberts

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