MAIN LINE THEATRES, INC. v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIB. CORP.

Nos. 13508, 13509.

298 F.2d 801 (1962)

MAIN LINE THEATRES, INC., Appellant, v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION, Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp., RKO Radio Pictures, Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Loew's Incorporated, United Artists Corporation, and Allied Artists Distributing Corp. 309 DRIVE-IN CORP., Appellant, v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION, Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp., Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Loew's Incorporated, United Artists Corporation, Buena Vista Film Distributing Corp., Allied Artists Distributing Corp.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1962.

Rehearing Denied February 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Norman Ball, Philadelphia, Pa. (W. Wilson White, White and Williams, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellants.

W. Bradley Ward, Philadelphia, Pa. (Samuel D. Slade, Abraham L. Freedman, Louis J. Goffman, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellees.

Before GOODRICH, McLAUGHLIN and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

In these civil antitrust suits under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1, 2, the appellants, two corporations controlled by a single family, have complained of certain practices of the defendants in the commercial distribution of motion pictures and have asked for treble damages and injunctive relief. In the court below the cases were decided on the defendants' pretrial motions, asserting that the parties had entered...

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