Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. v. United States

Addyston Pipe and Steel Co. v. U.S.
Addyston Pipe and Steel Co. v. U.S.
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 26–27, 1899; Decided December 4, 1899
Full case name	Addyston Pipe and Steel Company et al., Appts., v. United States
Citations	175 U.S. 211 (more) 20 S. Ct. 96; 44 L. Ed. 136; 1899 U.S. LEXIS 1559
Holding
	Upheld the rule of reason doctrine regarding U.S. antitrust laws.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · Horace Gray; David J. Brewer · Henry B. Brown; George Shiras Jr. · Edward D. White; Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna
Case opinion
Majority	Peckham, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV;; Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

Addyston Pipe and Steel Co. v. United States, 175 U.S. 211 (1899), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that for a restraint of trade to be lawful, it must be ancillary to the main purpose of a lawful contract. A naked restraint on trade is unlawful; it is not a defense that the restraint is reasonable.

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