United States v. Loew's Inc.

United States v. Loew's Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 16, 1962 Decided November 5, 1962
Full case name	United States v. Loew's Incorporated et al.
Citations	371 U.S. 38 (more) 83 S.Ct. 97, 9 L.Ed.2d 11
Prior history	Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Holding
Block booking of movies—the offer of only a combined assortment of movies to an exhibitor—violates antitrust laws.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan, Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Majority	Goldberg, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, Brennan, White
Dissent	Harlan, joined by Stewart
Laws applied
Sherman Antitrust Act

United States v. Loew's Inc., 371 U.S. 38 (1962), was an antitrust case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that block booking of movies—the offer of only a combined assortment of movies to an exhibitor—violates the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Besides its legal consequences, the court's decision affected economic theory, explaining product bundling as a form of price discrimination.^[1][2][3]

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 371
• International Salt Co. v. United States (1947)
• United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)

References

1. Stigler, George J. (1963). "United States v. Loew's Inc.: A Note on Block-Booking". Supreme Court Review. 1963: 152–157. JSTOR 3108731.
2. Adams, William James; Yellen, Janet L. (1976). "Commodity Bundling and the Burden of Monopoly". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 90 (3): 475–498. doi:10.2307/1886045. JSTOR 1886045.
3. Kenney, Roy W.; Klein, Benjamin (1983). "The Economics of Block Booking". Journal of Law and Economics. 26 (3): 497–540. doi:10.1086/467048. JSTOR 725036.