One reason that the government faced difficulty defending the Sherman Antitrust Act in court was because

The Sherman Antitrust Act prohibited combinations that restrained trade and attempts to monopolize, but it did not clearly define what counted as a “trust” or a “monopoly.” That vagueness made it difficult for the government to show in court that a company’s actions violated the law. The correct choice is that the act did not clearly define those terms.

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