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COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYS., INC. v. AMERICAN SOC. OF C., A. & P.

No. 69 Civ. 5740.

337 F.Supp. 394 (1972)

COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC., Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for plaintiff; Alan J. Hruska, Robert K. Baker, Ronald S. Rolfe, John A. Lucido and J. Barclay Collins, New York City, of counsel.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Herman Finkelstein, New York City, for ASCAP and defendants Coleman, Hamilton, Schwartz and Washington; Simon H. Rifkind, Jay H. Topkis, Allan Blumstein, and Max Gitter, New York City, of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

This is a civil antitrust action by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. ("CBS") against American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ("ASCAP") and others for alleged violations of the Sherman Act. ASCAP and the defendants who are members of its board of directors move, pursuant to Rule 56, Fed.R.Civ.P., for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. For the reasons set forth below, the motion is denied.

ASCAP is an unincorporated...

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