PAPPAS v. AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS

No. 53 C 1246.

125 F.Supp. 343 (1954)

James PAPPAS, doing business as Vine Gardens, et al., Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, an unincorporated association, et al., Defendants.

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

November 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton T. Raynor, John Moser, Stanford Clinton, and Manuel Weisman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Alfred Kamin, Jacobs, Kamin & Ratner, and Korshak & Rothman, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This suit is brought by individual and corporate operators of cafes and places of entertainment in the Chicago area, an association which represents them, and several individual performers, against the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), its President and Administrative Secretary, and certain other guilds affiliated with AGVA. A group of booking agents were also parties plaintiff, but were dismissed by agreement. The plaintiffs seek...

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