Legal Opinion
Associated Film Distribution Corp. v. Thornburgh
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 24, 1981No. Civ. A. 80-1179PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
TROUTMAN, District Judge.
The Pennsylvania Feature Motion Picture Fair Business Practices Law, Act No. 1980-14, 73 P.S. § 203-1 et seq. (“the Act”), was approved by Governor Thornburgh on February 29, 1980, and became effective on April 29, 1980. The Act comprehensively regulates the licensing of motion pictures for exhibition within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A number of other states have adopted legislation regulating certain aspects of motion picture licensing. 1 Most of the statutes that have been enacted in states other than Pennsylvania go no further than…
2Cases cited78 opinions
- Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Buckley v. ValeoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Allied Artists Picture Corp., and Avco Embassy Pictures Corp., Cross-Appellees v. James A. Rhodes, Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1982
- Orson, Inc. T/a Roxy Screening Rooms v. Miramax Film Corp.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999
- Associated Film Distribution Corp. v. ThornburghCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1982
- James E. McFadden, Inc. v. Baltimore Contractors, Inc.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1985
- Associated Film Distribution Corp. v. ThornburghDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1985
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