SCHOOL DIST. OF PHILADELPHIA v. HARPER & ROW PUBLISHERS, INC.

Civ. A. No. 40537.

267 F.Supp. 1006 (1967)

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA et al. v. HARPER & ROW PUBLISHERS, INC., et al.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 26, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cohen, Shapiro, Berger & Cohen, by David Berger, and Herbert B. Newberg, Philadelphia, Pa., Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Levy, by Aaron M. Fine, and Delores Korman, Philadelphia, Pa., Edward G. Bauer, City Solicitor for City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs and intervenors.

Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz by J. B. H. Carter, and K. Robert Conrad, Philadelphia, Pa., for Harper & Row and Little, Brown & Co.

Duane, Morris & Heckscher, by Henry T. Reath, Philadelphia, Pa., for The Macmillan Co.

Dechert, Price & Rhoads, by H. Francis DeLone, and Raymond H. Midgett, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for McGraw-Hill Book Co.

Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, by Seymour Kurland, Philadelphia, Pa., for Golden Press.

Drinker, Biddle & Reath, by Lewis H. Van Dusen, Jr., Patrick Ryan, Philadelphia, Pa., for Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.

Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, by Edward W. Mullinix, Arthur H. Kahn, Philadelphia, Pa., for Random House, Inc. and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Blank, Rudenko, Klaus & Rome, by Goncer Krestal, Philadelphia, Pa., for Franklin Watts, Inc., Children's Press, Inc.

Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, by David F. Maxwell, Philadelphia, Pa., for American News Co.

White & Williams, by Michael H. Malin, Philadelphia, Pa., for Rand McNally & Co.

Rawle & Henderson, by George M. Brodhead, Philadelphia, Pa., for Campbell & Hall, Inc.

Saul, Ewing, Remig & Saul, by Robert W. Sayre, Philadelphia, Pa., for G. P. Putnam Sons.

Donald Brown, Philadelphia, Pa., for Donald McKay Co., Inc.

Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, by Joseph H. Swain, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for Baker & Taylor.

Theodore R. Mann, Philadelphia, Pa., and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, by Donald J. Williamson, New York City, for Henry Z. Walck, Inc.


OPINION

KRAFT, District Judge.

In this antitrust action, brought under the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 15, the defendant publishers, Campbell & Hall, Inc. (hereinafter C. & H.) and Henry Z. Walck, Inc. (hereinafter Walck) have moved to dismiss for improper venue.1 Walck has also moved to quash service of process, the validity of which necessarily depends upon a finding of proper venue.

Both defendants contend...

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