Legal Opinion
United States v. National Broiler Marketing Association
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 22, 1977No. 76-2115PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether broiler industry companies that neither own nor operate farms can be “farmers” within the meaning of a 1922 federal statute called the Capper-Volstead Act, 1 which gives farmers’ cooperatives some measure of protection from the antitrust laws. The question is a novel one. After careful study of the Act and its legislative history, we are convinced that Congress’s purpose in enacting Capper-Volstead does not mandate or permit protection of these broiler industry companies from the proscriptions of the antitrust laws. The district court held…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- United States v. Borden Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Tigner v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Malat v. RiddellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Addison v. Holly Hill Fruit Products, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Frost v. Corporation Comm'n of Okla.Supreme Court of the United States · 1929
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3Cited by18 opinions
- In Re Chicken Antitrust Litigation American PoultryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- National Broiler Marketing Ass'n v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Arthur Swerdloff and Louis Swerdloff v. Miami National Bank, a National Banking AssociationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Spartan Grain & Mill Co. v. AyersCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Hiatt Grain & Feed, Inc. v. BerglandDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 1978
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