legitimate objects
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 362 U.S. 458 - Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association Inc v. United States · 1960Most cited · 381 citing opinions
agricultural cooperative
the full effect of §6 [of the Clayton Act] is that a group of farmers acting together as a single entity in an association cannot be restrained 'from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof'... but the section cannot support the contention that it gives such an entity full freedom to engage in predatory trade practices at will.
How often courts cite the case defining “legitimate objects”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “legitimate objects” — 381 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.