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...Your account of the modern Supreme Court was incisive and well written. The vigorous support given to antitrust legislation by this Court could also have been cited as an example of progressive activism, helping to preserve a system of competitive enterprise. In my opinion, the present Court will be regarded historically as the finest since the days of Chief Justice John Marshall...
...baseball card-buying public." For example, it issued check lists to exploit the kids' appetites for complete sets of its 576 numbered cards. As Tocker sees it, Topps has thus "monopolized a part of trade or commerce within the meaning of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust...
...full ICC must rule on the merger, and a decision will probably take about a year. The merger has been opposed by the Justice Department (though ICC decisions are immune from antitrust prosecution), by several states and by some stockholders, but the recent record shows that the ICC usually follows its examiners' recommendations. It has approved six other rail mergers in the last five years and rejected none, seems wisely determined to regroup competition-pressed U.S. roads into a hardier handful of regional superroads...
...negotiating with KWTX, quickly decided to award its contract to KANG instead. Shortly thereafter, so did ABC. Then, with FCC approval, the Johnsons increased the transmitting power of their Austin station and made a costly swath across KWTX's viewing and advertising market. KWTX pushed an unsuccessful federal antitrust action against the Johnsons, finally gave up and agreed to sell them 29.05% of its stock in a trade for KANG-including the major network franchises that KANG had sewed...
...sputtered angrily about the treatment he was getting from Smith, but was even more dismayed at the potential effect of Tuck's bill. "If you can take away jurisdiction over reapportionment today," Celler said, "tomorrow you can take away jurisdiction over civil rights, and the next day over antitrust cases." Countered Tuck: "This may be a harsh method, but I know no other way to see the right thing done...