Legal Opinion
Melrose Distillers, Inc. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 20, 1959No. 404PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
'Mr. Justice Douglas
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Petitioners are corporations — two organized under Maryland law and one under Delaware law — and wholly ówned subsidiaries of Schenley Industries, Inc. They were indicted with others for restraining trade, conspiring to monopolize and attempting to monopolize commerce in violation of §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209, 15 U. S. C. §§ 1, 2. Shortly after the indictment was returned, petitioners were dissolved under their respective state statutes and became separate divisions of a new corporation under the same ultimate ownership.…
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- United States v. P. F. Collier & Son Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1953
- Addy v. ShortSupreme Court of Delaware · 1952
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