Sherman Antitrust Act

Sherman Antitrust Act definition - business

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.

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