15 U.S.C. § 13C
Section 13c · Exemption of non-profit institutions from price discrimination provisions
This is the Sherman Antitrust Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case City of Lafayette Louisiana v. Louisiana Power & Light Company (1978)
Most recently applied in The Vaccine Center, LLC v. Glaxosmithkline LLC (January 2017)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Nothing in the Act approved June 19, 1936, known as the Robinson-Patman Antidiscrimination Act, shall apply to purchases of their supplies for their own use by schools, colleges, universities, public libraries, churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions not operated for profit.
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References in Text
The Act approved June 19, 1936, known as the Robinson-Patman Antidiscrimination Act, referred to in text, is act June 19, 1936, ch. 592, 49 Stat. 1526, which enacted sections 13a, 13b, and 21a of this title and amended section 13 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 13 of this title and Tables.