UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
v.
TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION, Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Warner Bros. Distributing Corporation, Universal Pictures Company, Inc., United World Films, Inc., RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Columbia Pictures Corporation, Screen Gems, Inc., Defendants.
United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 5, 1955.
Findings and Judgment January 10, 1956.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Samuel Flatow, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., James M. McGrath, Los Angeles, Cal., Daniel H. Margolis and Leonard R. Posner, Trial Attys., Antitrust Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.
Musick, Peeler & Garrett, O'Melveny & Myers, Homer I. Mitchell and Warren M. Christopher, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Freston & Files, O'Melveny & Myers, Homer I. Mitchell and Warren M. Christopher, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., and Warner Bros. Distributing Corp.
O'Melveny & Myers, Homer I. Mitchell and Warren M. Christopher, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Universal Pictures Co., Inc., and United World Films, Inc.
Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Guy Knupp, Macklin Fleming and Robert Rifkind, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Columbia Pictures Corp., and Screen Gems, Inc.
United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.
YANKWICH, Chief Judge.
The action was originally instituted by the Government1 against six motion picture producers and six distributors of feature motion pictures, charging violation of § 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.2 On September 12, 1955 a consent decree was entered against Republic Pictures Corp., a producer and its wholly owned subsidiary, Republic Productions, Inc., a distributor. On September...
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