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Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904), was a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1903. The Court ruled 5-4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, which had essentially formed a monopoly and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company.
Northern Securities Company v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904), is a landmark antitrust decision of the Supreme Court. The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had formed a monopoly under the Northern Securities Company. The public had become greatly alarmed by ...
The Justice Department won the suit and the company was dissolved according to the 1904 Supreme Court ruling in Northern Securities Co. v. United States case, decided five to four. The companies were convicted under the Sherman Antitrust Act .
Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904) The Supreme Court orders a regional railway monopoly, formed through a merger of 3 corporations, to be dissolved. Swift & Co. v. United States, 196 U.S. 375 (1905) The antitrust laws entitled the federal government to regulate monopolies that had a direct impact on commerce
195 U.S. 138 (1904) sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: Gonzales v. Williams: 192 U.S. 1 (1904) Puerto Ricans and illegal aliens Northern Securities Co. v. United States: 193 U.S. 197 (1904) Antitrust, application of the Sherman Antitrust Act: Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. 196 U.S. 1 (1904) Burton v. United States (1905)’’ 196 ...
In March 1904, the Supreme Court ruled for the government in the case of Northern Securities Co. v. United States. According to historian Michael McGerr, the case represented the federal government's first victorious prosecution of a "single, tightly integrated interstate corporation."
After a stretch of nearly a decade, the securities fraud case against Donald M. Johnson just might be nearing a conclusion. Johnson, 58, of Porter, was first charged in Porter Superior Court in ...
From 1904 to 1909 Robert S. Lovett was general counsel, and after 1909 president, of the E. H. Harriman system of railroads—the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. In the wake of the Northern Securities Case he was compelled to dissolve the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific merger in 1913.