Concept

Rule of reason

U.S. legal doctrine that the Sherman Act bars only unreasonable restraints of trade.

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Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (opinion of the Court and Harlan, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), Supreme Court of the United States (text via Cornell LII), 1911. Primary record
it was intended that the standard of reason which had been applied at the common law and in this country in dealing with subjects of the character embraced by the statute was intended to be the measure used

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