...Traffic Officers of the member lines. The Agreement finally reserved to each member of the Association "the free and unrestrained right to take independent action either before or after any determination is arrived at after any provision herein provided." 65 Opposing approval, the Department of Justice...

...Traffic Officers of the member lines. The Agreement finally reserved to each member of the Association "the free and unrestrained right to take independent action either before or after any determination is arrived at after any provision herein provided." 65 Opposing approval, the Department of Justice...

...Opposing approval, the Department of Justice urged first that the agreement "does not actually accord to each party thereto the free and unrestrained right to take independent action as required by Par. (6) of § 5a." e6 Second, the Department contended that it went so *49U. SC §5b...

...183, 210). There the independent action provision, cast In statutory lancuage. reserved to each member the "free and unrestrained right to take Independent...either before or after any determination" arrived at under procedures established by that agreement. The Commission reasoned that agreement preserved for...

...policy, the Reed-Bulwinkle Act prohibits approval of agreements which do not accord "to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure." Congressman Bulwinkle said of this provision : "Thus the essential values of competition...

...Opposing approval, the Department of Justice urged first that the agreement "does not actually accord to each party thereto the free and unrestrained right to take independent action as required by paragraph (6) of section 5a."M Second, the Department contended that it went so "far...

...through joint consideration unless it finds that under the agreement there is accorded to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure. (7) The Commission is authorized, upon complaint or upon its own initiative without...

...transaction to which section 5 of the act is applicable, or (3) which does not accord to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through the procedure established by the agreement. The standards of service and ratemaking laid down in the...

...provided that the Commission has also found "that under the agreement there is accorded to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure." Section 5a(9) exempts parties to such agreements from the operation of the anti-trust...

...through joint consideration unless it finds that under the agreement there is accorded to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure." If such a provision were included In the Shipping Act, to be effective whenever the...