PSCI 3322 Lecture 21: CASE BRIEFS 13
25 Jan 2017
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Facts: congress passed the sherman anti-trust act in 1890 as a response to the growth of giant combinations controlling transportation, industry and commerce. The act aimed to stop the concentration of wealth and economic power in the hands of the few. It outlawed every contact, combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade or interstate commerce. It declared every attempt to monopolize any part of trade or commerce to be illegal. Ec knight controlled over 98% of the sugar-refining business in the us. Response: act was constitutional but did not apply to manufacturing. Manufacturing was not commerce, the law did not reach the admitted monopolization of manufacturing. Court found no violation of the anti-trust act because the acquisition of the sugar refineries involved intrastate commerce. Facts: keating-owen child labor act prohibited the interstate shipment of goods produced by child labor. Dagenhart"s father sued in behalf of his freedom to allow his son to work in a textile mill.
