Skouras Theatres Corp. v. Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.

DIMOCK, District Judge.

In these two private treble damage antitrust actions consolidated for the purpose of trial, hereinafter referred to respectively as the Skouras case and the Broadway case, defendants move for partial summary judgment on several distinct grounds.

Plaintiffs, describing themselves as theatre operators of almost fifty theatres in the New York Metropolitan area, are suing certain distributors and exhibitors of motion pictures. Defendants herein were either defendants in the ease of United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 1 or are corporations which were organized pursuant…