Burke v. Ford

How courts have described this case

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

• Sherman Act violated by wholesalers of imported liquor who divided up sales territories, even though all of their sales to retailers occurred in-state
• The Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, extended to intrastate distributors of alcoholic beverages because intrastate distribution substantially affected interstate commerce.
• Sherman Act violated by wholesalers of imported liquor who divided up sales- territories, even though all of their sales to retailers occurred in-state
• “[I]t is well established that an activity which does not itself occur in interstate commerce comes within the scope of the Sherman Act if it substantially affects interstate commerce.”
• liquor wholesalers who imported liquor into the state violated the Sherman Act, even though all of their sales were intrastate, because the wholesaler’s actions “invariably reduee[d] competition”
• “For it is well established that an activity which does not itself occur in interstate commerce comes within the scope of the Sherman Act if it substantially affects interstate commerce.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).