Marsh v. Buck

Most of the questions presented by this case are the same as those that were raised in Watson v. Buck, ante, p. 387. Here, as there, at the request of ASCAP and its co-complainants a federal District Court composed of three judges enjoined various, state, officials from enforcing a state statute 1 aimed primarily at price-fixing com binations operating in the field of public performance of copyright music. 2 Here, as there, the complainants alleged, and the defendants denied, that enforcement of the act had been threatened. Here, as there, the court below found that threats had been made,…