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In ''[[Spectrum Sports, Inc. v. McQuillan]]'' 506 U.S. 447 (1993) the Supreme Court said:
{{blockquote|The purpose of the [Sherman] Act is not to protect businesses from the working of the market; it is to protect the public from the failure of the market. The law directs itself not against conduct which is competitive, even severely so, but against conduct which unfairly tends to destroy competition itself.<ref name="SpectrumSports">{{ussc|name=Spectrum Sports, Inc. v. McQuillan|link=|volume=506|page=447|pin=458|year=1993}}.</ref>}}
According to its authors, it was not intended to impact market gains obtained by honest means, by benefiting the consumers more than the competitors. Senator [[George Hoar]] of [[Massachusetts]], another author of the Sherman Act, said the following:
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