Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States

At issue is the legality under the Sherman Act of the Times-Picayune Publishing Company’s contracts for the sale of newspaper classified and general display advertising space. The Company in New Orleans owns and publishes the morning Times-Picayune and the evening States. Buyers of space for general display and classified *597advertising in its publications may purchase only combined insertions appearing in both the morning and evening papers, and not in either separately.1 The United States filed a civil suit under the Sherman Act, challenging these “unit” or “forced combination” contracts as…