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cblr-1212	Rooney, William H.; Fleming, Timothy G.	William Howard Taft, the Origin of the Rule of Reason, and the Actavis Challenge	2018	24	.pdf	application/pdf	7728	337	55	have produced nothing but glittering generalities and have offered no line of distinction or rule of action as definite and as clear as that which the Supreme Court itself lays down in enforcing the statute. The defendants argued that the Sherman Act “was not intended to reach any agreements that were not void and unenforceable at common law” and that defendants’ agreement would not violate the common law and was therefore beyond antitrust scrutiny.7 As Taft noted in Addyston Pipe, however, a then-recent Supreme Court case, United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass’n, “held that contracts in restraint of interstate transportation were within the statute, whether the restraints would be regarded as reasonable at common law or not.	cache/cblr-1212.pdf	txt/cblr-1212.txt