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Clayton Antitrust Act

U.S. law of 1914; its Section 8 bars one person from sitting on the boards of two competing companies above a size line.

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Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act 30 Sep 1976 Primary record 2
It added section 7A to the Clayton Act.

Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States According to William Howard Taft Primary record 3
Taft wrote in December 1911 that the decisions suggested the need for supplemental legislation; he did not name this act.

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15 U.S. Code § 19 - Interlocking directorates and officers, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (text of the U.S. Code). Primary record
(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 8, 38 Stat. 732; May 15, 1916, ch. 120, 39 Stat. 121;
Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, Public Law 94-435, 90 Stat. 1383, U.S. Government Publishing Office, 30 Sep 1976. Primary record
The Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12 et seq.) is amended by inserting immediately after section 7 of such Act the following new section
Third Annual Message (on the anti-trust statute), 5 December 1911, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara (text of the message), 5 Dec 1911. Primary record
These decisions suggest the need and wisdom of additional or supplemental legislation

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