Loewe v. Lawlor

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Loewe v. Lawlor

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued December 4, 5, 1907
Decided February 3, 1908

Full case name:	Deitrich Loewe et al. v. Martin Lawlor et al.

Citations:	208 U.S. 274; Page 274 U. S. 208

Holding

Labor unions may not restrain trade with strike action according to the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Court membership

Chief Justice: Melville Fuller
Associate Justices: John Marshall Harlan, David Josiah Brewer, Edward Douglass White, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William R. Day, William Henry Moody

Case opinions

Majority by: Fuller

Loewe v. Lawlor, 208 U.S. 274 (1908),^[1] (also referred to as the Danbury Hatters' Case) was a U.S. Supreme Court decision in which a labor boycott of D. E. Loewe & Company by the Hatters' Union was deemed a conspiracy in restraint of trade that violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and accordingly awarded threefold damages to the company. This case was thus a setback for the U.S. labor movement, setting a precedent concerning the illegality of strike action in the United States.