LORAIN JOURNAL CO. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES

Whether an agreement between two local newspapers to cease competition, fix prices and pool profits violated the Sherman Antitrust Act

Does the First Amendment protect peaceful labor picketing from a state court injunction when the picketing is undertaken to compel a business to enter into an agreement that would violate a valid state law?

Whether the bylaws and membership practices of the Associated Press violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, and whether applying the antitrust laws infringed the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of the press.