THEATRE ENTERPRISES v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIB. CORP.

No. 6512.

201 F.2d 306 (1953)

THEATRE ENTERPRISES, Inc. v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORP. et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin P. Rome, Philadelphia, Pa. (Sol C. Berenholtz, Baltimore, Md., and Gray, Anderson, Schaffer & Rome, Philadelphia, Pa., on brief), for appellant.

J. Cookman Boyd, Jr., and R. Dorsey Watkins, Baltimore, Md. (Edward C. Raftery, New York City, and E. Compton Timberlake, Denver, Colo., on brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought under the antitrust laws1 by Theatre Enterprises, Inc., a Maryland corporation, against the eight largest motion picture producing and distributing companies in the United States. The plaintiff sought injunctive relief as well as monetary damages for loss suffered as a result of the defendants' refusal to supply first-run motion pictures to the plaintiff...

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