United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association

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United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association
by Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Syllabus

United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association, 166 U.S. 290 (1897), was a United States Supreme Court case holding that the Sherman Act (which was an antitrust measure that prohibited anticompetitive behavior in commerce) applied to the railroad industry, even though the U.S. Congress had enacted a comprehensive regime of regulations for that injury.

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United States Supreme Court

166 U.S. 290

United States  v.  Trans-Missouri Freight Association


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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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