ACTIVE SUPERVISION

active  supervision.Antitrust.  Under  the  test  for  determining  whether  a  private  entity  may claim a state-action exemption from the antitrust laws, the right of the state to review the entity’s anticompetitive  acts  and  to  disap-prove  those  acts  that  do  not  promote  state  policy.  See STATE-ACTION   DOCTRINE;   MIDCAL   TEST.   [Cases:   Monopolies      12(15.5).   C.J.S. Monopolies §§ 136, 138–143.]…

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ACTIVE-OPERATIONS DUTY

active-operations  duty.Maritime  law.  A  shipowner’s  obligation  to  provide  safe  working conditions, in the work areas that it controls, for the longshoremen who are loading or unloading the    ship.    —    Also    termed    ac-tive-control-of-vessel    duty.    Cf.    TURNOVER    DUTY; INTERVENTION DUTY. [Cases: Shipping    84(3.2).] [Blacks Law 8th]

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ACTIVE DUTY

active duty. 1.Military law. The full-time status of being in any of the U.S. armed forces. 2. See positive duty under DUTY(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

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