Legal Opinion
Patriot Cinemas, Inc. v. General Cinema Corp.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 24, 1987No. 87-1105PublishedCited by 238 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from the district court’s dismissal without prejudice of an action that was removed from the Massachusetts Superior Court to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Plaintiff Patriot Cinemas (“Patriot”) owns and operates a chain of seven movie theaters, all within Massachusetts. The defendants are General Cinemas — one of the largest movie theater chains in the United States — and several nationwide distributors of feature films (“distributor defendants”). Patriot claims that the defendants conspired to deny first-run…
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