BIGELOW v. RKO RADIO PICTURES

No. 4525.

78 F.Supp. 250 (1948)

BIGELOW et al. v. RKO RADIO PICTURES et al.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

April 21, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. McConnell, of Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

Defrees, Fiske, O'Brien & Thomson, by Vincent O'Brien, all of Chicago, Ill., for Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., and James C. Coston.

Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey, by Otto E. Koegel, John F. Caskey, and Frederick W. R. Pride, all of New York City, for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Spyros P. Skouras, John H. Lorentz, W. C. Gehring, and Joseph Neger.

Jacob I. Grossman, of Chicago, Ill., and Alfred B. Teton, of Washington, D. C., for Barney Balaban, John Balaban, Louis Phillips, and Walter Immerman.

Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, by Miles Seeley, all of Chicago, Ill., for Loew's, Incorporated, Nicholas Schenk, William F. Rodgers, J. E. Flynn, W. E. Banford, RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., and Sam Gorelick.

Poppenhusen, Johnston, Thompson & Raymond, by Edward R. Johnston and Samuel W. Block, all of Chicago, Ill., for Paramount Pictures, Inc., and Balaban & Katz Corporation.


IGOE, District Judge.

The litigation out of which this contempt proceeding grows has been previously reported. Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. et al., 327 U.S. 251, 66 S.Ct. 574, 90 L.Ed. 652, and 7 Cir., 150 F.2d 877. Following the opinion of the Supreme Court, this court, on October 16, 1947, entered a decree subjecting the defendant distributors and exhibitors to certain restraints. On appeal...

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