EMPIRE RAYON YARN CO. v. AMERICAN VISCOSE CORPORATION

No. 468, Docket 29554.

354 F.2d 182 (1965)

EMPIRE RAYON YARN CO., Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN VISCOSE CORPORATION, Fred Malina, Arthur Malina, Edythe M. Charnas and Fred H. Diamond, co-partners doing business as Malina Company, Gutner Brothers Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided December 13, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Greenwald, Sweet, Reinitz, Peskin & Sweet, New York City, for appellant.

E. Compton Timberlake, New York City (Jackson, Nash, Brophy, Barringer & Brooks, Lawrence P. McGauley, New York City, for American Viscose Corp.; Silver, Bernstein, Seawell & Kaplan, Nahum A. Bernstein, New York City, for Malina Co.; Herbert S. Greenberg, New York City, for Gutner Bros. Corp.), for appellees.

Before MOORE, SMITH and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


HAYS, Circuit Judge.

The complaint dismissed by the judgment below attacked the validity under the Robinson-Patman Act1 of defendants' distribution system for rayon yarn. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. 238 F.Supp. 556 (S.D.N.Y.1965). We reverse.

The plaintiff Empire Rayon Yarn Co., Inc. (Empire) buys unprocessed rayon yarn from the manufacturers of such yarn...

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