UNITED STATES v. SCHINE CHAIN THEATRES

Civ. No. 223.

31 F.Supp. 270 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. SCHINE CHAIN THEATRES, Inc., et al.

District Court, W. D. New York.

January 17, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Grobe, U. S. Atty., of Buffalo, N. Y., Thurman Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., Herbert Borkland, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Seymour Krieger, Sp. Atty., of Washingon, D. C., and Joseph J. Doran, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Rochester, N. Y., for plaintiff.

Frederick H. Wood, Willard S. McKay, Thomas T. Cooke, and Cravath, DeGersdorff, Swaine & Wood, all of New York City, and Penney & Penney, of Buffalo, N. Y., for defendants Schine Chain Theatres, Inc., and others.

John Lord O'Brian, of Buffalo, N. Y., for defendants Loew's Inc., Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Vitagraph, Inc., Paramount Pictures, Inc., and Paramount Film Distributing Corp.

Schwartz & Frohlich, of New York City (Irving Moross, of New York City, of counsel), for Columbia Pictures Corp.

O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery, of New York City, for United Artists Corp.

Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey, of New York City (Richard E. Dwight and John Fletcher Caskey, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendant Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Lumbard, of New York City, for RKO Pictures, Inc.


KNIGHT, District Judge.

The government has instituted this suit in equity under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq.) against certain individuals and corporations, against Schine Chain Theatres, Inc., certain of its officers and certain of its subsidiary corporations, and also against eight leading distributors of motion picture films. The so-called Schine defendants operate upwards of 150 motion picture...

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