Legal Opinion
McLain v. Real Estate Board of New Orleans, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 8, 1980No. 78-1501PublishedCited by 478 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
The question in this case is whether the Sherman Act extends to an agreement among real estate brokers in a market area to conform to a fixed rate of brokerage commissions on sales of residential property.
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The complaint in this private antitrust action, filed in the Eastern District of Louisiana in 1975, alleges that real estate brokers in the Greater New Orleans area have engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act, ch. 647, 26 Stat. 209, as amended, 15 U. S. C. § 1. No trial has as yet been had on the merits of the claims since the complaint was dismissed for…
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