UNITED STATES v. BALABAN

No. 31230.

26 F.Supp. 491 (1939)

UNITED STATES v. BALABAN et al.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

February 17, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Campbell, U. S. Dist. Atty., of Chicago, Ill., Thurman Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Robert L. Wright, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

Weymouth Kirkland, Robert N. Golding, and Thomas M. Thomas, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Paramount Pictures, Inc., Balaban & Katz Corporation, B. & K. Management Corporation and Barney Balaban.

Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, of Chicago, Ill., for defendant Loew's, Inc.

Spitz & Adcock, of Chicago, Ill., for defendants RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., and Universal Film Exchanges, Inc.

Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey, of New York City, for defendant Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Sonnenschein, Berkson, Lautmann, Levinson & Morse, of Chicago, Ill., for defendant United Artists Corporation.

Defrees, Buckingham, Jones & Hoffman, of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Warner Bros. and Vitagraph, Inc.


WOODWARD, District Judge.

The information charges the defendants with criminal contempt for a wilful disobedience of the injunctive decree of this court entered April 6, 1932. An order to show cause was entered. Before responding to the order to show cause the defendants appeared and severally, with the exception of Vitagraph, Inc., and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., and moved the Court for an order requiring the Government to furnish the defendants a bill of particulars...

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