E. C. Knight Company Procedural History

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Procedural History

E.C. Knight Company was taken to trial in the Federal New Jersey third circuit court. The federal government alleged the agreements leading to the monopoly were unlawful and should be void, and the companies should no longer be able to run the monopoly. The circuit court ruled in favor of E.C Knight Company saying that the contracts were not intended to restrain interstate commerce and was legal. The federal government appealed directly to the supreme

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