TRADE RESTRAINTS - IS THE UNITED STATES A PERSON WITHIN THE TREBLE DAMAGES PROVISION OF THE SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT?

The United States filed a complaint charging that defendants had attempted collusively to fix prices in bids submitted by them to the federal government. A judgment for three times the money damages sustained was sought under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Held, that the United States is not a person within section 7 of the act under which relief was demanded. United States v. Cooper Corp., 312 U. S. 600, 61 S. Ct.

742 (1941).