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How Business Cartels Have A Way Of Controlling Competition

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Business cartels have a way of controlling competition, it is for this reason that landlords, real estate owners, and owners of mining companies have decided to join the election polls in Bangalore, India. Bangalore being the third largest city and is it is considered to be the Silicon Valley of India. Many political parties deny any dealings with these owners but have them running on their ticket in the election. The elections are mostly capital intensive and these people have the ability to finance any political party. It is for this reason why the Addyston Pipe and Steel Co v U.S”, bidding ring case will be discuss in this paper to explain why bidding rings are formed.
Addyston Pipe and Steel Co. v “U.S”, court case of 1889 in which the Supreme Court of the United States granted the federal government certain regulatory powers over private business. The case resulted from a number of convictions of pip-manufacturing firms for price fixing, a practice that washeld to be a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act that regulates the actions of corporate trusts. While the pipe companies argued that manufacturing was not under federal regulation, the Court ruled that price fixing was a clear impingement on interstate commerce and was therefore under federal regulatory jurisdiction.
It was charged in the petition that on the 28th of December, 1894, the defendants entered into a combination and conspiracy among themselves, by which they agreed that there should be no

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