Federal · Title 42 — Public Health and Welfare

42 U.S.C. § 5909: Relationship to antitrust laws

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

This statute clarifies that nothing in the chapter grants immunity from antitrust law liability or creates antitrust defenses; it preserves all existing federal antitrust laws and their enforcement.

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Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to convey to any individual, corporation, or other business organization immunity from civil or criminal liability, or to create defenses to actions, under the antitrust laws. the Act entitled “An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies”, approved July 2, 1890 ( 15 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), as amended; the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes”, approved October 15, 1914 ( 15 U.S.C. 12 et seq.) as amended; the Federal Trade Commission Act ( 15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.), as amended; sections 73 and 74 of the Act entitled “An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes”, approved August 27, 1894 ( 15 U.S.C. 8 and 9), as amended; and the Act of June 19, 1936 , chapter 592 ( 15 U.S.C. 13 , 13a, 13b, and 21a).

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