Legal Opinion
Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 19, 1962No. 45PublishedCited by 2,636 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The question involved here is whether this treble damage action based on alleged violations of the restraint of trade and monopoly sections of the Sherman Law1 was rightly terminated by a summary judgment of dismissal. The petitioner, Lou Poller, is the assignee of the Midwest Broadcasting Company, a dissolved corporation. In 1954 Midwest was the owner and operator of WCAN, an ultra high frequency (UHF)2 broadcasting station *466located in Milwaukee. The station was affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System network and was of the alleged value of 12,000,000. Poller charged that the…
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