Litigants: | United States v. Loew's Inc. |
Arguedate: | October 16 |
Argueyear: | 1962 |
Decidedate: | November 5 |
Decideyear: | 1962 |
Fullname: | United States v. Loew's Incorporated et al. |
Usvol: | 371 |
Uspage: | 38 |
Parallelcitations: | 83 S.Ct. 97; 9 L. Ed. 2d 11; 1962 U.S. LEXIS 2332 |
Prior: | 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. |
Majority: | Goldberg |
Joinmajority: | Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, Brennan, White |
Dissent: | Harlan |
Joindissent: | Stewart |
Lawsapplied: | 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]