Legal Opinion
Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 26, 1973No. 71-991PublishedCited by 579 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
In this civil antitrust suit brought by appellee against Otter Tail Power Co. (Otter Tail), an electric utility company, the District Court found that Otter Tail had attempted to monopolize and had monopolized the retail distribution of electric power in its service area in violation of § 2 of the Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209, as amended, 15 U. S. C. § 2. The District Court found that Otter Tail had attempted to prevent communities in which its retail distribution franchise had expired from replacing it with a municipal distribution system. The principal means employed were (1) refusals to sell…
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