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The Treble Damage Bonanza: New Doctrines Of Damages In Private Antitrust Suits, Homer Clark
The Treble Damage Bonanza: New Doctrines Of Damages In Private Antitrust Suits, Homer Clark
Michigan Law Review
Section 7 of the Sherman Act, as amended by section 4 of the Clayton Act, gives a private right of action for treble damages to persons injured "in . . .business or property by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws. . . ." The lucrative possibilities of this section for plaintiffs and their attorneys have recently received sufficient notoriety to arouse curiosity concerning the legal doctrines involved.
The purposes of the section have been said to include compensation for those affected by violations, prevention of violations, and assistance for the government in discovering and bringing before the courts …