Knutson v. Daily Review, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

RENFREW, District Judge.

In August 1973 a group of independent newspaper dealers brought suit in this Court against the publishers and certain officers of the newspapers they distributed, alleging violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2. After extensive discovery and a lengthy trial, this Court on September 23, 1974, rejected three of plaintiffs’ claims for relief but found that the publisher’s written Dealership Agreement, which prohibited the dealers from selling their papers to subscribers at a price above the publisher’s suggested price,…