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[CITE: 15USC1804]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                   CHAPTER 43--NEWSPAPER PRESERVATION
 
Sec. 1804. Reinstatement of joint operating arrangements 
        previously adjudged unlawful under antitrust laws
        
    (a) Notwithstanding any final judgment rendered in any action 
brought by the United States under which a joint operating arrangement 
has been held to be unlawful under any antitrust law, any party to such 
final judgment may reinstitute said joint newspaper operating 
arrangement to the extent permissible under section 1803(a) of this 
title.
    (b) The provisions of section 1803 of this title shall apply to the 
determination of any civil or criminal action pending in any district 
court of the United State \1\ on July 24, 1970, in which it is alleged 
that any such joint operating agreement is unlawful under any antitrust 
law.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``States''.
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(Pub. L. 91-353, Sec. 5, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 467.)

                       References in Text

    Any antitrust law, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), are the 
antitrust laws defined in section 1802 of this title.