sham exception
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 365 U.S. 127 - Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · 1961Most cited · 4,296 citing opinions
There may be situations in which a publicity campaign, ostensibly directed toward influencing governmental action, is a mere sham to cover what is actually nothing more than an attempt to interfere directly with the business relationships of a competitor and the application of the Sherman Act would be justified.
How often courts cite the case defining “sham exception”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sham exception” — 4,255 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.