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U.S. v. CRESCENT AMUSEMENT CO.

NOS. 17 AND 18.

323 U.S. 173 (1944)

65 S.Ct. 254

89 L.Ed. 160

UNITED STATES v. CRESCENT AMUSEMENT CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Berge and Mr. Robert L. Wright, with whom Solicitor General Fahy and Messrs. Charles H. Weston and Chester T. Lane were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. William Waller, with whom Mr. Geo. H. Armistead, Jr. was on the brief, for appellees in Nos. 17 and 18 and appellants in No. 19.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The United States brought this civil suit against nine affiliated companies (whom we will call the exhibitors) operating motion picture theatres in some 70 small towns in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee; against certain officers of these companies; and against eight major distributors of motion picture films, charging them with a conspiracy unreasonably to restrain interstate trade and...

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