Legal Opinion
United States v. Loew's Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 5, 1962No. 42PublishedCited by 303 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goldberg
These consolidated appeals present as a key question the validity under § 1 of the Sherman Act1 of block booking of copyrighted feature motion pictures for television exhibition. We hold that the tying agreements here are illegal and in violation of the Act.
*40The United States brought separate civil antitrust actions in the Southern District of New York in 1957 against six major distributors of pre-1948 copyrighted motion picture feature films for television exhibition, alleging that each defendant had engaged in block booking in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act. The complaints asserted that…
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