It is only when the purpose or necessary effect of the organization and maintenance of the combination or the aggregation of immense size are the stifling of competition, actual and potential, and the enhancing of prices and establishing a monopoly, that the statute is violated.
He explains the conditions under which the anti-trust statute is violated, focusing on the intent to suppress competition.
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