Sentence examples for constituted a restraint from inspiring English sources

In Swift & Co. v. United States (1905), for example, the Supreme Court held that a price-fixing scheme among Chicago meat packers constituted a restraint of interstate commerce and was therefore illegal under the federal Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)—because the local meatpacking industry was part of a larger "current of commerce among the States".

That court ruled in September 2015 that the NCAA's ban on compensating athletes for use of their names and images in TV broadcasts and video games constituted a restraint of trade under federal antitrust law.

Cole will continue to contest his guilt on the grounds that the rule on illegal approaches constitutes a restraint of trade.

Each party may have a different notion about what constitutes a restraint and how it can be safely used, adding further weight to the burden shouldered by staff.

Last year, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that prohibiting merchants from steering customers toward other forms of payment constituted "an unlawful restraint on trade".

Collusion in setting the commissions would constitute an illegal restraint of trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Any collusion in setting the commissions would constitute an illegal restraint of trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

"The court concluded that such a practice constitutes an impermissible restraint upon a shareholder's ability to sell his unit," Mr. Cholst said.

But in a case decided last year, an appellate court ruled that a bylaw provision restricting the sale of certain units in a building only to existing owners did not constitute an unreasonable restraint on alienation.

That is because there has been some debate over whether such a fee constitutes an "unreasonable restraint on alienation," a common-law doctrine that prohibits unreasonable restrictions on the sale of real estate.

(Thus, an agreement not to invoke the statute of limitations is binding, but an agreement not to plead that a certain contract constitutes an illegal restraint of trade is not).