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

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

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]

References

↑ Stigler, George J. (1963). "United States v. Loew's Inc.: A Note on Block-Booking". Supreme Court Review. 1963: 152–157. JSTOR 3108731.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

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