Paramount Pictures, Inc. v. Sparling

Four actions for declaratory relief were consolidated for trial and from the four declaratory judgments which followed appeals are prosecuted by the Attorney General of the United States, plaintiff in intervention in each action (hereinafter called intervener), and the Superintendent of Banks of the State of California, defendant. The four actions present common questions of law on facts in all material respects similar and it will suffice to state the facts in the action in which Paramount Pictures, Inc. (hereinafter called Paramount), is plaintiff and respondent.

Arising out of the…