United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association

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United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 8–9, 1896 Decided March 22, 1897
Full case name	United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association
Citations	166 U.S. 290 (more) 17 S. Ct. 540; 41 L. Ed. 1007; 1897 U.S. LEXIS 2025
Case history
Prior	53 F. 440 (C.C.D. Kan. 1892); affirmed, 58 F. 58 (8th Cir. 1893).
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. Edward D. White · Rufus W. Peckham
Case opinions
Majority	Peckham, joined by Fuller, Harlan, Brewer, Brown
Dissent	White, joined by Field, Gray, Shiras
Laws applied
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association, 166 U.S. 290 (1897), was a United States Supreme Court case holding that the Sherman Act (which was an antitrust measure that prohibited anticompetitive behavior in commerce) applied to the railroad industry, even though the U.S. Congress had enacted a comprehensive regime of regulations for that industry.^[1]