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June 11, 1946.
June 11, 1946.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Wendell Berge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert L. Wright, Philip Marcus, Elliott H. Moyer, and John R. Niesley, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., Frank W. Gaines, Jr., of Washington, D.C., Gerald A. Herrick, of Falconer, N. Y., Robert B. Hummel, of Washington, D. C., Harold Lasser, of Newark, N. J., Kenneth R. Lindsay, of Washington, D. C., James M. McGrath, of San Francisco, Cal., Horace T. Morrison, of San Francisco, Cal., and Fred A. Weller, of Los Angeles, Cal., for the United States.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, of New York City (Whitney North Seymour, Louis Phillips, Albert C. Bickford, and Armand F. MacManus, all of New York City, of counsel), for Paramount defendants.
Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl and J. Robert Rubin, all of New York City (John W. Davis, J. Robert Rubin, C. Stanley Thompson, Benjamin Melniker, and S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr., all of New York City, of counsel), for defendant Loew's, Inc.
George S. Leisure, Ralstone R. Irvine, Granville Whittlesey, Jr., and Gordon E. Youngman, all of New York City (Roy W. McDonald and Donovan Leisure Newton & Lumbard, all of New York City, of counsel), for Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation, RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation, RKO Proctor Corporation and RKO Midwest Corporation.
Joseph M. Proskauer and Robert W. Perkins, both of New York City (J. Alvin Van Bergh, both of New York City, and Howard Levinson, of counsel), for the Warner defendants.
Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey, of New York City (John Fletcher Caskey and Frederick W. R. Pride, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendants Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and National Theatres Corporation.
Schwartz & Frohlich, of New York City (Louis D. Frohlich, Arthur H. Schwartz, Irving Moross, and Max H. Rose, all of New York City, of counsel), for defendant Columbia.
Charles D. Prutzman, of New York City, for the Universal defendants.
O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery, of New York City (Edward C. Raftery, Arthur F. Driscoll, Chas. D. Prutzman, George A. Raftery, and Adolph Schimel, all of New York City, of counsel), for defendant United Artists Corporation.
Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge, and GODDARD and BRIGHT, District Judges.
District Court, S. D. New York.
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The United States brought suit under Section 4 of the Act of Congress of July 2, 1890, 15 U.S.C.A. § 4, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies", commonly known as the Sherman Act, in order to prevent alleged violations by the defendants of Section 1 and 2 of that Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1, 2.
The following is a general description of the defendants:
1. (a...
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