UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
v.
COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.; Getty Oil Company; MCA, Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Defendants,
and
Premiere, Intervenor-Defendant.
United States District Court, S. D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 31, 1980.
December 31, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Seymour H. Dussman, Gordon B. Stoner, Karen Magid, Elisabeth P. Hyde, Stanley M. Gorinson, Robert E. Hauberg, Jr., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for plaintiff.
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for defendant, Paramount Pictures Corp.; Roy L. Reardon, Charles E. Koob, Nicholas M. Cannella, New York City, of counsel.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for defendant, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.; Ira Millstein, Alan J. Weinschel, Henry J. Tashman, New York City, of counsel.
Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant, Getty Oil Co.; H. Francis De Lone, Robert A. Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.
Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, Beverly Hills, Cal., for defendant, MCA, Inc.; Allen E. Susman, William Billick, Beverly Hills, Cal., of counsel.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; Julian O. Von Kalinowski, James Patrick Clark, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel.
Munger, Tolles & Rickershauser, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor-defendant, Premiere; Ronald L. Olson, Jeffrey I. Weinberger, Harold A. Barza, Bradley S. Phillips, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel.
United States District Court, S. D. New York.
OPINION
GOETTEL, District Judge:
The culture of the United States during the twentieth century has been largely shaped by its motion pictures. Indeed, the images on the silver screen were so pervasive that much of the world has come to think of this country as it was portrayed in the movies. In the middle of the century, an interloper called television threatened the motion picture industry, but, after a period of retrenchment, Hollywood came back strongly...
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