Legal Opinion
United States v. Crescent Amusement Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 18, 1944No. Nos. 17, 18, 19PublishedCited by 266 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
The United States brought this civil suit against nine affiliated companies (whom we will call the exhibitors) operating motion picture theatres in some 70 small towns in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee; against certain officers of these companies; and against eight major distributors of motion picture films, charging them with a conspiracy unreasonably to restrain interstate trade and commerce in motion-picture films and to monopolize the exhibition of films in this area in violation of § 1 and § 2 of the Sherman Act. 26 Stat. 209, 15 U. S. C. §§ 1, 2. The suit was…
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