Category: Congressional Regulation of Commerce as Traffic
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Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission (Congress Regulation of Commerce)Not all antidepression legislation, however, was of this new approach. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 1 and the Public Utility Company Act ("Wheeler-Rayburn Act"…
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Sherman Act
The Sherman Act: Sugar Trust CaseCongress's chief effort to regulate commerce in the primary sense of "traffic" is embodied in the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the opening section of which declares "every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise," or "co…
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Swift Case
The "Current of Commerce" Concept: The Swift CaseDefendants in Swift were some thirty firms engaged in Chicago and other cities in the business of buying livestock in their stockyards, in converting it at their packing houses into fresh meat, and in the sale and shipment of such fresh meat…
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Grain Futures Act
Stockyards and Grain Futures ActsIn 1921, Congress passed the Packers and Stockyards Act,1 whereby the business of commission men and livestock dealers in the chief stockyards of the country was brought under national supervision, and in the year fol…
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Danbury Hatters Case
The Danbury Hatters CaseIn this respect, the Swift case only states what the Shreveport case was later to declare more explicitly, and the same may be said of an ensuing series of cases in which combinations of employees engaged in such intrastate activities as manufacturing, mining, building, const…