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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Sherman Antitrust Act
The first legislation passed in the United States limiting trusts and monopolies. The Act prohibits agreements and collusion restricting trade, without providing many specifics. The Act was largely unenforced against the organizations it was intended to curtail. Indeed, the Act was invoked early on to restrict organized labor more than any other group. As a result, Congress passed the Clayton Act in 1914 to clarify American antitrust law. The Sherman Act has been criticized by many, notably Ayn Rand and her followers, for unfairly and inefficiently restricting the Invisible Hand of the market.
Sherman Antitrust Act
An 1890 federal antitrust law intended to control or prohibit monopolies by forbidding certain practices that restrain competition. In the early 1900s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Act applied only to unreasonable restraints of trade and thus could be used only against blatant cases of monopoly.
Sherman Antitrust Act

One of the antitrust laws designed to encourage competition and discourage monopolies.
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So, can Y bring a claim under section 1 (5) or 2 (6) of the Sherman Act for anticompetitive dealing or monopolization against X?
Giving teeth to Sherman Act enforcement in the intrabrand context: ... by Rodes, Carlo Luis / Notre Dame Law Review
3) Nevertheless, Bork thought the undertaking was justified by the need to counter the judiciary's repeated invocation of values that were unrelated to the debate that had informed congressional enactment of the Sherman Act and, lacking any legitimate economic rationale, were likely to produce real economic harm.
Judge Bork, consumer welfare, and antitrust law by Ginsburg, Douglas H. / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
It focuses only on the HSR Act Section 1, the Sherman Act, and the FTC Act to preclosing conduct; it does not address other statutory or regulatory restrictions.
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