Archive Report
Archive Report
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State Laws for Retail Price-Fixing
The Way Cleared by a favorable Supreme Court decision in December, 1936, no less than 22 state legislatures so far this year have enacted laws permitting resale price maintenance. This flood of legislation raises to 371 the total number of states which have placed such laws on their statute books during the depression—all except two since the beginning of 193;). Aimed chiefly at predatory price-cutting, these “fair-trade” acts allow manufacturers to fix the minimum resale price of branded goods to consumers ...