Exhibitors Poster Exchange, Inc. v. National Screen Service Corporation

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

Here Exhibitors 1 is seeking reversal of the District Court’s summary judgment in favor of the defendants. The District Court granted the summary judgment on the basis of the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel, which doctrines are the natural points of dispute of such long continuing private anti-trust cases as this.

Exhibitors is a jobber or rental distributor of advertising posters for movies. There are two defendants. As a group the first — Producers—comprises the major movie companies, 2 which through their copyright rights have the sole right to…