Hypothetically, Can the US Government be sued under the Anti-trust laws?

No, the Anti-trust laws constrain the activities only of commercial enterprises.

There is a case - name escapes me now because it's late - where the US government was acting in a commercial manner by selling mandatory crop insurance to farmers, and an agent messed up and required farmers to buy a policy for a crop that the government plan didn't cover. Floods destroyed the crop, and when the government refused to pay, the farmers sued. SCOTUS ruled that even when the government acts AS a commercial enterprise, it isn't, and can't be sued as one.

Richard

This topic is requiring some research which is making me tired. In short i feel that the US Gov. could be sued for some violations of "Anti-trust laws" but they can't be held totally responsible for the actions of certain companies as these laws are subsequent to change legally by federal standards and are overseen by different jurisdictions within the state governments.

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