December 1884: The Law Journal ‘s mistatement that colonial barristers had been admitted to British courts got the English periodical Pump Court into trouble. The London Daily Telegraph complained that it should not be blamed as the source, as Pump Court had insinuated, since every English newspaper made the same mistake. But Pump Court said it was the Telegraph ‘s enormous worldwide circulation that led other newspapers, including “an able legal journal in the States,” to repeat the error.
100 Years Ago
December 1909: The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was a combination in restraint of trade and must be dissolved. Although the Law Journal editors thought it unlikely that Standard Oil would be put out of business, they said the case and others like it pointed up the need for a federal law regulating corporations and holding companies. “Uniform state laws can scarcely be secured so as to reach and dominate the situation,” they wrote.
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