WOOLNER THEATRES, INC. v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP.

Civ. A. No. 15544.

333 F.Supp. 658 (1970)

WOOLNER THEATRES, INC. & Drive-In Movies of Louisiana, Inc. v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

May 5, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Ellis Henican, Jr., of Henican, James & Cleveland, New Orleans, La., Lawrence Alioto, of the Law Offices of Joseph L. Alioto, San Francisco, Cal., Francis Anderson, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Phillip A. Wittmann and Warren A. Goldstein, of Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, La., Stanley Godofsky, of Royall, Koegel & Wells, New York City, for Paramount Pictures Corp. (formerly Paramount Film Distributing Corp.), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Distributing Corp., United Artists Corp., Universal Film Exchanges, Inc. and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Distributing Corp. (formerly Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp.).

Murphy Moss, of Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Matthews & Schumacher, New Orleans, La., Roy W. McDonald, of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, for Buena Vista Distribution Co., Inc.

George A. Raftery, of O'Brien, Driscoll, Raftery, Rosenbloom & Grainger, New York City, Charles M. Lanier, of Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., for NOTR Corp.

Gibbons Burke and Charles E. Richards, Jr., of Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, La., for ABC Mid-South Theatres, Inc. and Canal Realty & Improvement Co.


BOYLE, District Judge.

Woolner Theatres, Inc. and Drive-In Movies of Louisiana, Inc., operators of drive-in theatres in the New Orleans area, brought this motion picture antitrust action against the major motion picture distributors and certain downtown New Orleans exhibitors alleging these defendants conspired to distribute and exhibit better quality first-run motion pictures on an exclusive first-run basis in downtown theatres in violation of 15 U.S.C. § 15...

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