Legal Opinion
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 24, 1930No. 83PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
By this proceeding the United States seek to prevent further violation of Section 1, Act of Congress approved July 2, 1890 (Sherman Act), c. 647, 26 Stat. 209, through an alleged combination and conspiracy to restrain interstate commerce in. motion picture films.
Appellants are the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and nine other Corporations (Distributors), producers and distributors throughout the Union of sixty per cent of the films used for displaying motion pictures by some 25,000 theatre owners (Exhibitors); the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, a corporation with…
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