Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 43 — Newspaper Preservation
§ 1804. Reinstatement of joint operating arrangements previously adjudged unlawful under antitrust laws
Statutory text
Notwithstanding any final judgment rendered in any action brought by the United States under which a joint operating arrangement has been held to be unlawful under any antitrust law, any party to such final judgment may reinstitute said joint newspaper operating arrangement to the extent permissible under section 1803(a) of this title.
The provisions of section 1803 of this title shall apply to the determination of any civil or criminal action pending in any district court of the United State 1 on , in which it is alleged that any such joint operating agreement is unlawful under any antitrust law.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be “States”.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Newspaper Preservation Act
Pub. L. 91–353 § 5 · 84 Stat. 466
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1804
(Pub. L. 91–353, § 5, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 467.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–353, § 5, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 467.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. previous transactions (a) Notwithstanding any final judgment rendered in any action brought by the United States under which a joint operating arrangement has been held to be unlawful under any antitrust law, any party to such final judgment may reinstitute said joint newspaper operating arrangement to the extent permissible under section 4(a) hereof. (b) The provisions of section 4 shall apply to the determination of any civil or criminal action pending in any district court of the United State on the date of enactment of this Act in which it. is alleged that any such joint operating agreement is unlawful under any antitrust law.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision