Loewe v. Lawlor
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Loewe v. Lawlor | ||||||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||||
Argued December 4, 5, 1907 Decided February 3, 1908 |
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Holding | ||||||||||
Labor unions may not restrain trade with strike action according to the Sherman Antitrust Act. | ||||||||||
Court membership | ||||||||||
Chief Justice: Melville Fuller Associate Justices: John Marshall Harlan, David Josiah Brewer, Edward Douglass White, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William R. Day, William Henry Moody |
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Case opinions | ||||||||||
Majority by: Fuller |
Loewe v. Lawlor, 208 U.S. 274 (1908),[1] (also referred to as the Danbury Hatters' Case) was a U.S. Supreme Court decision in which a labor boycott of D. E. Loewe & Company by the Hatters' Union was deemed a conspiracy in restraint of trade that violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and accordingly awarded threefold damages to the company. This case was thus a setback for the U.S. labor movement, setting a precedent concerning the illegality of strike action in the United States.
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- ^ Loewe v. Lawlor, 208 U.S. 274 (1908). FindLaw. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
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