United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass’n
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Syllabus
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1. A fire insurance company which conducts a substantial part of its business transactions across state lines is engaged in "commerce among the several States" and subject to regulation by Congress under the Commerce Clause. P. 539.
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2. A conspiracy to restrain interstate trade and commerce by fixing and maintaining arbitrary and noncompetitive premium rates on fire and allied lines of insurance, and a conspiracy to monopolize interstate trade and commerce in such lines of insurance, held violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act. P. 553.
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3. Congress did not intend that the business of insurance should be exempt from the operation of the Sherman Act. Pp. 553, 560.
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51 F. Supp. 712, reversed.
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Provisions
The Constitution Annotated's essays on these provisions cite this case.
- Article I, Section 8, Clause 3suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays ArtI.S8.C3.2, ArtI.S8.C3.3, ArtI.S8.C3.7.7, pp. 325, 326, 361.
Overrules
- Paul v. Virginia (1869)suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions, p. 2447: United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass’n, 322 U.S. 533 (1944) — Paul v. Virginia, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 168 (1869).
Why it is here
The library's first set of cases is chosen by fixed rules from the Constitution Annotated (2022), which cites this case as “United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass’n, 322 U.S. 533 (1944)”:
- overrules Paul v. Virginia (table of overruled decisions)