Parker v. Brown

Parker v. Brown
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued May 5, 1942 Decided January 4, 1943
Full case name	Parker, Director of Agriculture, et al. v. Brown
Citations	317 U.S. 341 (more) 63 S. Ct. 307; 87 L. Ed. 315; 1943 U.S. LEXIS 1263; 1943 Trade Cas. (CCH) ¶ 56,250
Holding
39 F.Supp. 895 (reversed)
Court membership
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Owen Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy Robert H. Jackson
Case opinion
Majority	Stone, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Sherman Act

Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341 (1943), was a United States Supreme Court case on the scope of United States antitrust law. It held that actions taken by state governments were exempt from the scope of the Sherman Act.

The case was an appeal from a decree of a district court of three judges enjoining the enforcement, against the appellee, of a marketing program adopted pursuant to the California Agricultural Prorate Act.

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The Supreme Court clarified its position in later judgments.

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