United States v. J. Myer Schine

CLARK, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from judgments of conviction of criminal contempt of the provisions of a consent decree entered in the court below on June 24, 1949, after a lengthy antitrust proceeding involving the Schine Circuit motion picture theatres. Appellant Schine Chain Theatres, Inc., its subsidiaries Schine Theatrical Co., Inc., Schine Lexington Corporation, Schine Enterprises Corporation, Schine Circuit, Inc., and Chesapeake Theatres Corporation (together known as Schine Circuit), and its principal officers J. Myer Schine and John A. May were all parties to the allegedly…