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Antitrust And The Newspapers -- A Comment On S. 1312, John J. Flynn

Vanderbilt Law Review

The American newspaper industry, often called "The Fourth Estate," apparently believes it has fallen on hard times. The aristocrats of the Fourth Estate, the daily newspapers, came to the Ninetieth Congress seeking a boon: relaxation of the rigors of antitrust policy as applied to mergers and joint agency operations by otherwise competing newspapers. A bill has been introduced, S. 1312, which is sponsored by fifteen Senators of diverse political and economic views, all save one having one thing in common-the presence of newspaper joint agency operations in their home states.' The very fact that Senators of such conflicting viewpoints could …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Antitrust--When Plaintiff Participates in a Scheme Initiated by Defendant, In Pari Delicto Is No Bar to Recovery

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Civil Rights--Amusement Park Is Covered by Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Civil Rights--Desegregation--Freedom-of-Choice Plans Are Not To Be Used When More Effective Means for Desegregation Are Available

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Constitutional Law--Fourteenth Amendment Entitles Defendants Charged with Serious Crimes in State Courts to Trial by Jury

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Constitutional Law-Reapportionment--"One Man, One Vote" Held Applicable to Units of Local Government

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Constitutional Law--Search and Seizure--Police May Conduct Limited Search for Weapons in Course of Field Investigatin Without Probable Cause for …

Joint Business Ventures In The Central American Common Market, Michael W. Gordon

Vanderbilt Law Review

The European Economic Community's Treaty of Rome was referred to by Paul Monet as the first great anti-trust law in Europe. This view is undoubtedly predicated on the belief that the Treaty of Rome would break up the large cartels existing in the individual European nations by providing relatively uninhibited competition from other nations. However, this has not proved true since many of the old cartels remain strong. Conversely, other individuals expressed concern about the proposed EEC and feared that giant European cartels might develop. These concerns equally proved to be erroneous. With respect to the CACM, at least one …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Antitrust--Unincorporated Divisions of a Corporation May Be Separate Entities for Purposes of Antitrust Laws

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Constitutional Law--One-Year Residence Requirement as Condition of Eligibility for State Welfare Aid Held Unconstitutional

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International Law--Sovereign Immunity and Act of State--Hickenlooper Amendment Precludes Assertion of Act of State Where Act Is Violative of International Law

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Products Liability--Lender Held Liable for Gross Defects in Housing Development It Had Financed

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Taxation--Constructive Ownership Rules Automatically Applied to Section 302(b) (1)Dividend Equivalency Test

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Taxation--IRS Rules Organization Which Discriminates on Basis of Race Not Charitable

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