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UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTH. & PUB.

No. 115, Docket 28909.

341 F.2d 1003 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, Defendant-Appellee. Metromedia, Inc., Petitioner-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 8, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel Kestenbaum, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Arthur J. Murphy, Jr., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Herman Finkelstein, New York City (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Simon H. Rifkind, Jay H. Topkis, Allan Blumstein and Carl L. Zanger, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Robert A. Dreyer, of Seligson & Morris, New York City (Charles Seligson, George A. Katz, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner-appellant.

Before FRIENDLY and SMITH, Circuit Judges, and BLUMENFELD, District Judge.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Metromedia, Inc., owner and operator of a chain of radio and television stations, moved in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to punish the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for an alleged violation of the consent decree entered in United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, S.D.N.Y. Civ. No. 13-95...

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