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Antitrust and Trade Regulation

1941

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Consumers' Co-Operatives And Price Fixing Laws, Charles Bunn Dec 1941

Consumers' Co-Operatives And Price Fixing Laws, Charles Bunn

Michigan Law Review

The evolution of our business institutions shows us a long procession of experimental procedures, giving rise to de facto commercial forms, many of which have in turn demanded such recognition de jure as should make their position in the business world both clear and safe. Consumers' co-operation is such a procedure. Its underlying idea is simple, that a business owned by its customers, managed under their direction and having no legitimate loyalties except to them, has a better chance to meet their needs than one owned and managed by outsiders. But it has taken many years and many failures to …

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Constitutional Law - Due Process - Price Regulation - Prohibition Of Sales Below Cost, George W. Loomis Dec 1941

Constitutional Law - Due Process - Price Regulation - Prohibition Of Sales Below Cost, George W. Loomis

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was indicted for alleged violation of the Pennsylvania Fair Sales Act, which prohibits the "advertisement, offer for sale, or sale of any merchandise at less than cost by retailers or wholesalers," and makes violation of the act a misdemeanor. His motion to quash the indictment was sustained by the court of the quarter sessions and affirmed by the superior court, and the state appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Held, affirming, that the statute violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment since it is not within the power of the state to prohibit sales below cost …

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Trade Restraints - Antitrust Laws - Consent Decrees - Right Of Intervention Where Decree Reopened, Gerald M. Lively Nov 1941

Trade Restraints - Antitrust Laws - Consent Decrees - Right Of Intervention Where Decree Reopened, Gerald M. Lively

Michigan Law Review

In 1935, the Attorney General brought a suit in equity to enforce the antitrust laws, charging Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation and its controlled instrumentality, Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corporation, and individual defendants, with having conspired for the benefit of Columbia Gas to shut out operation in the Indiana-Ohio-Michigan area by the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, which had built a natural-gas pipe line from the Texas fields to the border of Indiana. Panhandle was an offspring of Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Company, or Mokan, which at the time of the suit owned half its stock and half its junior debt. …

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Trade Restraints - Is The United States A Person Within The Treble Damages Provision Of The Sherman Antitrust Act?, William C. Whitehead Nov 1941

Trade Restraints - Is The United States A Person Within The Treble Damages Provision Of The Sherman Antitrust Act?, William C. Whitehead

Michigan Law Review

The United States filed a complaint charging that defendants had attempted collusively to fix prices in bids submitted by them to the federal government. A judgment for three times the money damages sustained was sought under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Held, that the United States is not a person within section 7 of the act under which relief was demanded. United States v. Cooper Corp., 312 U. S. 600, 61 S. Ct. 742 (1941).

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Trade Restraints - Associations Of Manufacturers To Combat Style Piracy - Illegal Restraints Of Trade, Michigan Law Review May 1941

Trade Restraints - Associations Of Manufacturers To Combat Style Piracy - Illegal Restraints Of Trade, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

In order to combat the practice of "style piracy" among competitors, a large number of producers of women's coats and dresses formed an association, whose membership was composed of designers, manufacturers, and distributors. Producers adjudged copyists by the association were not permitted membership. The clear purpose of the association was primarily to boycott retailers who refused to deal solely with members of the association, and secondarily to boycott, and eliminate competition from, the copyists. In addition there was provided a system of registration for designs made by members, and a judicial type of machinery for protecting the designers' interest therein. …

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Price Fixing Agreements And The Sherman Act Apr 1941

Price Fixing Agreements And The Sherman Act

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Trade Regulation

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Federal Courts - Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure - Rule 12(E) - Motion For Bill Of Particulars, Oliver B. Crager Apr 1941

Federal Courts - Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure - Rule 12(E) - Motion For Bill Of Particulars, Oliver B. Crager

Michigan Law Review

The United States brought an action against defendants, movie distributors and producers, for alleged conspiracies and monopolies in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Defendants moved for a more definite statement or a bill of particulars under federal rule 12 (e). Held, bill of particulars allowed as to demands seeking ultimate facts, denied as to demands seeking evidentiary matter. United States v. Schine Chain Theatres, (D. C. N. Y. 1940) 1 F. R. D. 205.

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Trade Regulation: Inducing Breach Of Contract And Refusal To Deal In The Absence Of Conspiracy And Monopoly, Howard E. Trent Jr. Jan 1941

Trade Regulation: Inducing Breach Of Contract And Refusal To Deal In The Absence Of Conspiracy And Monopoly, Howard E. Trent Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Trade Secrets: Solicitation Of Customers By Former Employee, John J. Justice Jan 1941

Trade Secrets: Solicitation Of Customers By Former Employee, John J. Justice

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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