Arthur SCHWARTZ, Ira Gershwin, John Jacob Loeb, Dorothy Fields, Virgil Thomson, Douglas Stuart Moore, Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Randall Thompson, Milton Ager, Walter Bishop, Paul Cunningham, Mack David, Milton Drake, James Kimball Gannon, L. Wolfe Gilbert, George Graff, Alex Charles Kramer, Jack Lawrence, Alan Jay Lerner, Edgar Leslie, Jerry Livingston, George W. Meyer, Joseph Meyer, Vic Mizzy, Charles Tobias, Leonard Whitcup, Joan Whitney, Donald Macrae Wilhoite, Jr., also known as Don Raye, Jack Yellen, Victor Young, Robert MacGimsey and William Grant Still, individually and on behalf of other writers and composers of musical compositions similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
v.
BROADCAST MUSIC, INC., Radio Corporation of America, National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Columbia Records, Inc., Columbia Music Publishing Company, Master Records, Inc., Okeh Music Publishing Company, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc., General Teleradio, Inc., Mutual Broadcasting System, Inc., Storer Broadcasting Company, National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, BMI Canada, Ltd., Associated Music Publishers, Inc., Allen Intercollegiate Music, Inc., David Sarnoff, Frank M. Folsom, Niles Trammell, William S. Hedges, William S. Paley, Frank Stanton, James B. Conkling, Adrian Murphy, Herbert V. Ackerberg, Raymond Diaz, James E. Allen, J. Harold Ryan, Harold E. Fellows, Carl Haverlin, Justin Miller, Sydney M. Kaye, Merritt E. Tompkins, Robert J. Burton, Glenn Dolberg, Roy Harlow, Harry P. Somerville, Charles A. Wall, John Elmer, J. Herbert Hollister, Leonard Kapner, Paul W. Morency and J. Leonard Reinsch, Defendants.
United States District Court S. D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 7, 1959.
December 7, 1959.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John Schulman, New York City, John Schulman, M. William Krasilovsky, Elsie M. Quinlan, Martin Bressler, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiffs.
Rosenman, Goldmark, Colin & Kaye, New York City, Samuel I. Rosenman, Max Freund, Seymour D. Lewis, Stuart Robinowitz, Herbert H. Blau, Edward M. Cramer, Shirley A. Siegel, New York City, of counsel, for defendants Broadcast Music, Inc., Storer Broadcasting Company, BMI Canada, Ltd., Associated Music Publishers, Inc., Carl Haverlin, Sydney M. Kaye, Merritt E. Tompkins, Robert J. Burton, Glenn Dolberg, Roy Harlow, Harry P. Somerville and Charles A. Wall.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, Bruce Bromley, Jack E. Brown, C. Leonard Gordon, New York City, of counsel, for defendants Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Columbia Records, Inc., Blackwood Music, Inc. (sued herein as Columbia Music Publishing Company), Master Records, Inc., April Music, Inc. (sued herein as Okeh Music Publishing Company), William S. Paley, Frank Stanton, James B. Conkling, Adrian Murphy, and Herbert V. Akerberg (sued herein as Herbert V. Ackerberg).
Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl, New York City, Oleg Peter Petroff, New York City, of counsel, for defendants Radio Corporation of America, National Broadcasting Company, Inc., David Sarnoff, Frank M. Folsom, Niles Trammell, and William S. Hedges.
Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, New York City, Clarence Fried, New York City, of counsel, for defendants American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. and Raymond Diaz.
William M. Regan, New York City, of counsel, for defendants General Teleradio, Inc., Mutual Broadcasting System, Inc. and James E. Wallen.
United States District Court S. D. New York.
WEINFELD, District Judge.
This is a motion by the defendants for summary judgment in a private antitrust suit brought under sections 4, 12 and 16 of the Clayton Act.1 The motion is based solely on plaintiffs' alleged lack of standing to sue and hence the merits of the action are not involved.
Alternatively, the defendants seek partial summary judgment, should the Court conclude that plaintiffs are entitled to maintain this action...
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