United States v. E. C. Knight Co.

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United States v. E.C. Knight Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 4, 1894 Decided January 21, 1895
Full case name	United States v. E.C. Knight Co.
Citations	156 U.S. 1 (more) 15 S. Ct 249; 39 L. Ed. 325; 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2118
Case history
Prior	60 F. 306 (C.C.E.D. Pa. 1894); affirmed, 60 F. 934 (3d Cir. 1894)
Holding
Manufacturing is not considered an area that can be regulated by Congress pursuant to the commerce clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices Stephen J. Field · John M. Harlan Horace Gray · David J. Brewer Henry B. Brown · George Shiras Jr. Howell E. Jackson · Edward D. White
Case opinions
Majority	Fuller, joined by Field, Gray, Brewer, Brown, Shiras, Jackson, White
Dissent	Harlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec 8.

United States v. E. C. Knight Co., 156 U.S. 1 (1895), also known as the "Sugar Trust Case," was a United States Supreme Court antitrust case that severely limited the federal government's power to pursue antitrust actions under the Sherman Antitrust Act. In Chief Justice Melville Fuller's majority opinion, the Court held that the U.S. Congress could not regulate manufacturing and thus gave state governments the sole power to take legal action against manufacturing monopolies.^[1] The case has never been overruled, but in Swift & Co. v. United States and subsequent cases, the Court has held that Congress can regulate manufacturing when it affects interstate commerce.