Belina v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• an “understanding” about refraining from bidding between two purchasers of timber lots held per se illegal as price-fixing or market division
• courts have some scope for adopting a restricted rather than a literal reading of statute's words when the literal meaning would lead to absurd results
• “ ‘May’ unlike ‘shall,’ is not a word of command, but of permission”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).