---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1804"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1804"
heading: "Reinstatement of joint operating arrangements previously adjudged unlawful under antitrust laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1804"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — Newspaper Preservation"
---

# §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](/usc/15/1802.md?p=1), any party to such final judgment may reinstitute said [joint newspaper operating arrangement](/usc/15/1802.md?p=2) to the extent permissible under [section 1803(a) of this title](/usc/15/1803.md?p=a).
- (b) The provisions of [section 1803 of this title](/usc/15/1803.md) 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](/usc/15/7a.md?p=2) is unlawful under any [antitrust law](/usc/15/1802.md?p=1).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “States”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–353, § 5, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 467.)