AMERICAN INTERN. PICTURES v. PRICE ENTERPRISES

No. 79-1751.

636 F.2d 933 (1980)

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES, INC.; Avco Embassy Pictures, Inc.; Buena Vista Distribution Co., Inc.; Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; United Artists Corporation; Universal Film Exchanges, Inc.; Warner Bros. Distributing Corporation, Appellees, v. PRICE ENTERPRISES, INC.; Azalea Drive-In Theaters, Inc.; Chesapeake Drive-In Theaters, Inc.; Shore Drive Theaters, Inc.; Peninsula Twin Drive-In Theater, Inc.; Twin Drive-In Theater, Inc.; Drive-In Theaters, Inc., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley E. Sacks, Norfolk, Va. (Girard C. Larkin, Jr., Sacks, Sacks, Perkins & Larkin, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Lewis T. Booker, Richmond, Va. (L. Neal Ellis, Jr., Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before BUTZNER, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and HALL, Circuit Judge.


FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge:

Price Enterprises, Inc., and six other motion picture exhibitor corporations1 appeal from judgments entered against them in the district court in favor of nine motion picture distributor corporations.2 The judgments, based upon jury verdicts, aggregated $288,931 and included in that amount was $170,001 in punitive damages awarded against Price Enterprises, Inc.

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