What did the Supreme Court of the United States decide in the anti-trust case of U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co. in 1895?
A) The federal government's power of interstate commerce did not apply to E.C. Knight Co. since the company only refined in one state.
B) The company was indeed a monopoly since it controlled 98 percent of American sugar refining, the court ruled.
C) The court ruled that the federal government had no case against E.C. Knight Co. since sugar was not important enough a commodity to justify intervention.
D) The court threw the case out since E.C. Knight Co. did not have a sufficient share of the market in sugar refining to justify the government's allegations.
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