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1986 New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1982 Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing 1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM 1974 The U.S. files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T 1972 U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws 1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party 1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball 1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport 1922 U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws 1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act 1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act 1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S. 1889 Kansas passes 1st U.S. antitrust 1883 Alabama becomes 1st U.S. state to enact an antitrust law |
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