UNITED STATES v. COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION


189 F.Supp. 153 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION, Screen Gems, Incorporated and Universal Pictures Company, Incorporated, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

June 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Sirignano, Jr., Edward J. Harrison, and John M. O'Donnell, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Schwartz & Frohlich, Arthur H. Schwartz, Irving Moross, and Stuart G. Schwartz, Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, Theodore Kiendl, Taggart Whipple, Henry L. King, Richard H. Pershan, and Roland W. Donnem, New York City, for defendants Columbia Pictures Corp. and Screen Gems, Inc.

Daniel Glass, New York City, Gen. Counsel, for Screen Gems, Inc.

Adolph Schimel and Harold Lasser, New York City, for Universal Pictures Co., Inc.


HERLANDS, District Judge.

General Nature of the Action

This is a civil antitrust action instituted by a complaint filed by the United States on April 10, 1958, under Section 4 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 4) and Section 15 of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 25). It alleges violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 1) and Section 7 of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 18). The three defendants are Columbia Pictures...

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