United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n

United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 11, 1944 Decided June 5, 1944
Full case name	United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association, et al.
Citations	322 U.S. 533 (more) 64 S. Ct. 1162; 88 L. Ed. 1440; 1944 U.S. LEXIS 1199; 1944 Trade Cas. (CCH) P57,253
Court membership
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Owen J. Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy Robert H. Jackson · Wiley B. Rutledge
Case opinions
Majority	Black, joined by Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge
Dissent	Stone
Dissent	Frankfurter
Dissent	Jackson
Roberts and Reed took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Sherman Act

United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association, 322 U.S. 533 (1944), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Sherman Act, the federal antitrust statute, applied to insurance. To reach this decision, the Court held that insurance could be regulated by the United States Congress under the Commerce Clause, overturning Paul v. Virginia. Congress responded by enacting the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 which limited antitrust laws' applicability to the business and assured state authority would continue over insurance.

See also

• United States corporate law

External links

• Text of United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n, 322 U.S. 533 (1944) is available from:  Findlaw  Justia