Marjorie Webster Junior College, Inc., a Corporation v. Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondardy Schools, Inc., a Corporation

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• holding that process of accrediting schools “is an activity distinct from the sphere of commerce; it goes rather to the heart of the concept of education itself”
• recognizing that judicial power to regulate private accreditation agencies is “predicated . . . upon the developing doctrines of the common law,” and that accrediting agency standards deserve “substantial deference”
• emphasizing the noncommercial objectives of the nonprofit educational association accused of violating antitrust laws, but noting that lack of predatory intent will not save an activity that otherwise falls within the scope of the Act
• “[Judicial review of appellant’s [educational accreditation] standards should accord substantial deference to appellant’s judgment regarding the ends that it serves and the means most appropriate to those ends.”
• “[T]he proscriptions of the Sherman Act were tailored for the business world, not for the noncommercial aspects of the liberal arts and the learned professions.” (citations and internal alterations omitted)

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