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fair-trade law

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noun

  1. a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.


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Webb filed a countersuit charging that the state's fair-trade law was unconstitutional.

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In a 6-to-1 decision, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the state fair-trade law was unconstitutional.

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They refused to sign a fair-trade agreement with Seagram and Calvert distillers, and sold their liquor at cut rates, despite Louisiana's fair-trade law that made such price-cutting illegal.

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It reaffirmed an earlier ruling that a state fair-trade law could be enforced only against those retailers who had signed fair-trade agreements,* thus touched off a wave of defections.

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