Periodical Distributors, Inc. v. AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, 52
| Decision Date | 20 October 1969 |
| Docket Number | No. 52,Docket 33055.,52 |
| Citation | 416 F.2d 1330 |
| Parties | PERIODICAL DISTRIBUTORS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, Inc., Union News Company, Inc., Henry Garfinkle, Pacific News Company, Inc. and The Manhattan News Company, Inc., Defendants-Respondents. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit |
Arthur C. Fink, New York City (Fink, Weinberger & Levin, Robert D. Stern, Norman Solovay, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.
Eugene Frederick Roth, New York City, for defendants The American News Co., Inc., Union News Co., Inc., and Henry Garfinkle.
Sidney A. Florea, New York City, for defendant Manhattan News Co., Inc.
Harry Amer, New York City (Michael P. Direnzo, New York City, on the brief), for defendant Pacific News Co., Inc.
Before FRIENDLY, SMITH and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.
Plaintiff Periodical Distributors, Inc. appeals from a judgment for defendants in this private antitrust suit after a lengthy non-jury trial before Henry N. Graven, J.1 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Appellant is a periodical wholesaler in New York. Appellee Garfinkle or his family control appellees The American News Company, Inc., Union News Company, Inc., and Manhattan News Company, Inc. At the time suit was commenced, American News was the parent of Union News,2 which owns a large number of retail newsstands in the metropolitan area. Manhattan News is a wholesaler of periodicals, as is the remaining appellee Pacific News Company, Inc.
Appellant contends that defendants conspired to restrain competition in periodical distribution with the connivance of the Newspaper & Mail Deliverers' Union and others, principally by use of access to the Union News retail outlets as a club to prevent competition, and that defendants have monopolized or attempted to monopolize the submarket of terminal newsstands in the metropolitan area. The district judge found that there was no conspiracy, as alleged, that the termination of plaintiff's franchise from Select Magazines, Inc. for Nassau and Suffolk Counties was due to that company's desire to get rid of the burden of subsidies to plaintiff, that plaintiff did not prove wrongful conduct of defendants in connection with distribution of periodicals by Union News at LaGuardia Airport, that plaintiff did not establish unlawful restraint, monopoly or attempted monopoly by defendants in connection with...
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