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Legal Citation: 208 U.S. 274 (1908)

Appellant
D. E. Loewe

Appellee
Martin Lawlor

Appellant's Claim
That the union of which Martin Lawlor was the business agent, the United Hatters Union of North America, was acting against the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in unlawful restraint of trade by attempting to organize a boycott of Loewe's company, the Danbury Hatters, in order to force Loewe to permit his company to be unionized.

Chief Lawyers for Appellant
James M. Beck, Daniel Davenport

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
John Kimberly Beach, John H. Light

Justices for the Court
David Josiah Brewer, William Rufus Day, Melville Weston Fuller (writing for the Court), John Marshall Harlan I, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph McKenna, William Henry Moody, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
None