COUNTY THEATRE CO. v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIB. CORP.

Civ. A. No. 21133.

146 F.Supp. 933 (1956)

COUNTY THEATRE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION; Loew's, Inc., Columbia Pictures Corporation; Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation; RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; United Artists Corporation.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

October 4, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris L. Weisberg, and Harry Norman Ball, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Arlin Adams, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


WELSH, District Judge.

1. Defendants' Motion to Dismiss plaintiff's claim under the Robinson-Patman Act, Act of Congress of June 19, 1936, 15 U.S.C.A. § 13, is granted for the following reasons: (a) licensing of motion picture films (which is involved here) is not subject to the provisions of said Act, United States v. United Shoe Machinery Company, D.C., 264 F. 138, affirmed 258 U.S. 451, 42 S.Ct. 363, 66 L.Ed. 708; Hillside Amusement...

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