What is "antitrust"

Usage examples of "antitrust".

In several decisions the Court, assuming, but without deciding, that a State law requiring a witness to answer incriminating questions would violate the due process clause, has then proceeded to conclude, nevertheless, that a State antitrust law which grants immunity from local prosecution to a witness compelled to testify thereunder is valid even though testimony thus extracted may later serve as the basis of a federal prosecution for violation of federal antitrust laws.

Antitrust law is rooted in the idea that the government should prevent the formation of monopolies as well as other noncompetitive practices in order to preserve a functioning, fair free-market economy.

An antitrust action brought by the Federal Trade Commission forced the company to accept a consent decree requiring it to license its patents on a compulsory basis and to offer its machines for saleas well as on lease.

Both of their presidential administrations were marked by the passage of important progressivist antitrust legislation, from the regulation of the railroads under Roosevelt to broad regulation of business and finance under Wilson.

Without violating either the Fourth or Fifth Amendments, a judicial decree enjoining illegal practices under the Antitrust Act may provide that the Department of Justice shall be given access to all records and documents of the corporation relating to the matter covered by the decree.

FCC regulations, it makes a mockery of the antitrust laws, to say nothing of the SEC, OSHA, ICC, WARK, and a half a dozen other regulatory agencies.

Rozelle were apparently ready and willing to arrange for them, rather than risk any more public fights with Congress about things like TV blackouts and antitrust exemptions.

I want to know why, under the Democratic leadership, some corporations are singled out for antitrust suits while other corporations - sometimes as large or larger - are totally ignored.

Like Capone with the saloons, the liberal Democrat gang has got you no matter how you answer: The antitrust laws in America make it illegal to charge more than the competition.

And these two instituted a suit against baseball on constitutional grounds, asserting that organized baseball was in violation of the Antitrust Laws, and that the owners, by trading players from one team to another without their permission, treated them like pieces of property, which was both illegal and immoral.

In short: while on the left side of his all-red leaflets super Matern makes himself known as someone who wishes to hasten the end of the decadent Western social order, the un-printed part of the same-leaflets is filled with: graphs of costs, stock-market quotations, antitrust regulations -- what a visual anticipation of present-day coexistence!

Publishers cannot act in unison because they would be violating antitrust laws.

While violating the antitrust laws in spirit, they did not violate them in fact because Jim Hardesty's friends owned the packing house and truck lines and distributorships, and if they were just figureheads, well, you go ahead and prove it, pardner.

Supreme Court in an antitrust case at the request of Attorney General Jim Guy Tucker.

Supreme Court on behalf of our state in an antitrust case involving the setting of interest rates on credit cards.