Columbia Pictures Corporation v. Rogers

BEN MOORE, Chief Judge.

As will be seen from the caption, eight of these fifteen cases are brought against one set of defendants, and seven against another and individual defendant. The plaintiffs are various moving picture distributing corporations, which are mainly the same in each group of cases. I am of opinion that all the cases involve a common question of law, and that, generally speaking, they involve also common questions of fact. At the outset, therefore, an appropriate order should be entered consolidating them.

In each of the cases several motions are now pending. Plaintiffs have…