ASSOCIATED FILM DISTRIBUTION CORPORATION, et al.
v.
The Honorable Dick THORNBURGH, et al.
United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 5, 1985.
August 5, 1985.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Barbara Kacir, Richard I. Werder, Jr., Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio, Carole E. Handler, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.
Karen E. Katzman, Andrew Macdonald, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, Richard M. Squire, Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman and Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for Fox Theatres Management Corp.
H. Donald Busch, Lewis A. Grafman, Karen A. von Dreusche, Busch, Grafman & von Dreusche, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., for Budco Quality Theatres, Inc.
LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Atty. Gen., Gregory R. Neuhauser, Deputy Atty. Gen., Allen C. Warshaw, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for the Governor and Attorney General of Pa.
United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
KATZ, District Judge.
I uphold the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Feature Motion Picture Fair Business Practices Law.1 That Act regulates certain trade practices in the licensing relationship between those who distribute films and those who exhibit them. The distributors contend that the Act violates their rights to freedom of speech, offends the right of Congress to regulate interstate...
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