Legal Opinion
United States v. National Society of Professional Engineers
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 14, 1977No. 76-1023PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:
The U.S. Department of Justice presses this antitrust suit against the 65,000 member National Society of Professional Engineers. It claims that the Society’s efforts to enforce Section 11(c) of its Code of Ethics, which prohibits any form of competitive bidding on engineering projects, 1 violate Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
After extensive discovery and a trial, the district court found that the Society’s actions had the requisite impact on interstate commerce, that the engineering profession was not entitled to an exemption from the antitrust laws, and that the…
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