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Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act (APPA) Other short titles APPA Long title An act to reform consent decree procedures, to increase penalties for violation of the Sherman Act, and to revise the Expediting Act as it pertains to Appellate Review Nicknames Tunney Act Enacted by the 93rd United States Congress
The Tunney Act , officially known as the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act (Pub. L. 93–528 , 88 Stat. 1708 , enacted December 21, 1974 , 15 U.S.C. § 16 ), is antitrust legislation passed in the United States in 1974.
Submitted by John V. Tunney , the law has as its main point the court review Justice Department decisions regarding mergers and acquisitions .[ 1] It has been referred to in the AT&T actions with regards to SBC and BellSouth ,[ 2] along with the acquisition of Sprint by T-Mobile proposed in 2018.[ 3]
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Sherman Antitrust Act case law
United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)
United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association (1897)
Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. v. United States (1899)
Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904)
Swift & Co. v. United States (1905)
Loewe v. Lawlor (1908)
Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. (1911)
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911)
United States v. American Tobacco Co. (1911)
United States v. Terminal Railroad Association (1912)
Chicago Board of Trade v. United States (1918)
United States v. Colgate & Co. (1919)
Federal Baseball Club v. National League (1922)
United States v. General Electric Co. (1926)
Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States (1939)
Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States (1940)
United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1940)
Fashion Originators' Guild of America v. FTC (1941)
United States v. Masonite Corp. (1942)
United States v. Univis Lens Co. (1942)
Parker v. Brown (1943)
United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n (1944)
Associated Press v. United States (1945)
Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945)
Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946)
International Salt Co. v. United States (1947)
United States v. Line Material Co. (1948)
United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)
United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1948–1950)
Besser Manufacturing Co. v. United States (1951)
Lorain Journal Co. v. United States (1951)
United States v. New Wrinkle, Inc. (1952)
Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States (1953)
Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. (1953)
United States v. International Boxing Club of New York, Inc. (1955)
Radovich v. National Football League (1957)
Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc. (1959)
United States v. Parke, Davis & Co. (1960)
United States v. Loew's Inc. (1962)
United States v. Wise (1962)
Silver v. New York Stock Exchange (1963)
United States v. Singer Mfg. Co. (1963)
Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. (1965)
Albrecht v. Herald Co. (1968)
Haywood v. National Basketball Association (1971)
Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1971)
Flood v. Kuhn (1972)
Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States (1973)
United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd. (1973)
Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar (1975)
Continental Television, Inc. v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. (1977)
Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois (1977)
Broadcast Music, Inc. v. CBS Inc. (1979)
California Retail Liquor Dealers Ass'n v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc. (1980)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Inc. v. Hydrolevel Corp. (1982)
Arizona v. Maricopa County Medical Society (1982)
Rice v. Norman Williams Co. (1982)
Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. (1984)
Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde (1984)
NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (1984)
Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. (1985)
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. (1985)
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. (1986)
Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. (1992)
Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California (1993)
Spectrum Sports, Inc. v. McQuillan (1993)
State Oil Co. v. Khan (1997)
Verizon Communications Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP (2004)
Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. (2006)
Texaco Inc. v. Dagher (2006)
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007)
Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (2007)
Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co. (2007)
Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc. (2009)
American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League (2010)
North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC (2015)
Ohio v. American Express Co. (2018)
National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston (2021)
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