EAGLE LION CLASSICS v. LOEW'S INC.


121 F.Supp. 128 (1954)

EAGLE LION CLASSICS, Inc. et al. v. LOEW'S Inc. et al.

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

May 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Gutt, New York City, for plaintiffs; William L. McGovern, Seymour Krieger, and Robert L. Wright, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, New York City, for defendant Loew's Inc.; S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr., Francis W. Phillips and H. L. King, New York City, of counsel.

O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery, New York City, for defendants RKO Theatres, Inc. and RKO Film Booking Corp.; Edward C. Raftery and George A. Raftery, New York City, of counsel.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, for defendants RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., and Radio-Keith Orpheum Corp.; Ray McDonald, Buffalo, N. Y., and Thomas K. Fisher, New York City, of counsel.

Dwight, Royall, Harris, Koegel & Caskey, New York City, for defendant Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; John F. Caskey and Barbara A. Scott, New York City, of counsel.

Schwartz & Frohlich, New York City, for defendant Columbia Pictures Corp.; Everett A. Frohlich and Myles J. Lane, New York City, of counsel.

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for defendants Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp., United Artists Corp., Paramount Film Distributing Corp., and Big U Film Exchange, Inc., (Universal); A. C. Bickford, Cyrus R. Vance and Hardin Holmes, New York City, of counsel.


AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an anti-trust suit in which the plaintiffs demand treble damages for injury caused by an alleged conspiracy carried on by the defendants during the period 1946-1950. An injunction is also sought against the continuation of the conspiracy in the future by these same defendants. Specifically the violation of the anti-trust laws concerns an alleged conspiracy to monopolize the film business in metropolitan New York among the eight...

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