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United States v. E. C. Knight Company


Subject History

Place Northern America » United States of America

Key-Topics American War of Independence

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781577180999.1997.x


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In 1895 the Supreme Court (8–1) heard the government's case that a near monopoly of sugar refining violated the S herman A ntitrust A ct . The Court declared the Sherman Act's anti-monopoly clauses unconstitutional as they regarded manufacturing; it ruled that the government's authority to regulate interstate commerce did not extend to manufacturing. The ruling crippled enforcement of the Sherman Act. S wift and C ompany v. U nited S tates ended much of the exemption from federal antitrust regulation conferred on manufacturing corporations by this ruling. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Dictionary of American History



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