Steiner v. Century-Fox Film Corporation

220 F.2d 105 Selma STEINER, Appellant, v. 20TH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION, Fox West Coast Theatres Corporation, Avenue Fifty-Eight and Pasadena Corporation and National Theatres Corporation, Appellee. No. 13989. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Feb. 7, 1955. 1 Schwartz & Alschuler, Bernard Reich, Beverly Hills, Cal., for appellant. 2 Newlin, Holley, Tackabury & Johnston, Hudson B. Cox, Frank R. Johnston, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees. 3 Before STEPHENS and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges, and McLAUGHLIN, District judge. 4 McLAUGHLIN, District Judge. 5 This is a private Clayton Act action in which United States v. Paramount Pictures, 1948, 334 U.S. 131 , 68 S.Ct. 915 , 92 L.Ed. 1260 , is relied upon. Appellant sued 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, Fox West Coast Theatres Corporation, Avenue Fifty-Eight and Pasadena Corporation, National Theatres Corporation, Mark M. Hansen, and Ida R. Hansen for conspiring to violate Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209 (1890), as amended 50 Stat. 693 (1937), 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1 , 2, 1 and Section 4 of the Clayton Act, 38 Stat. 731 (1914), 15 U.S.C.A. 15. 2 Appellant owned a motion picture theatre in Los…