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UNITED STATES v. COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION

169 F.Supp. 888 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION, Screen Gems, Inc., and Universal Pictures Company, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

January 22, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor R. Hansen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anti Trust Division, by John Sirignano, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y., Edward J. Harrison, Streator, Ill., George Reycraft, Washington, D. C., Attorneys, Department of Justice, for plaintiff.

Schwartz & Frohlich, Arthur H. Schwartz, Stewart G. Schwartz, and Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, New York City, Theodore Kiendl, Taggart Whipple, Richard H. Pershan, and Henry L. King, New York City, of counsel, for defendants Columbia Pictures Corporation and Screen Gems, Inc.

Adolph Schimel and Harold Lasser, New York City, for Universal Pictures Co., Inc.

RYAN, District Judge.

This civil anti-trust suit, filed by the United States on April 10, 1958, under Section 4 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S. C.A. § 4) and Section 15 of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 25) alleges that the defendants violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 1) and Section 7 of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 18). The Government charges that these violations find origin in the making of and performance under a contract between...

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