Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Addabbo v. Donovan

382 U.S. 905

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1965-11-08
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • “In determining whether the defendants are subject to jurisdiction under the long-arm statute____the entire transaction must be considered.”
  • exclusive rights to motion picture exhibitor to show film commercially justifiable as reaching largest number of viewers with smallest number of prints and enabling first-run theatres to charge premium prices and to receive benefit of word-of-mouth advertising
  • parallel clearances and run schedules by motion picture distributors
  • state court suit under § 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, 29 U.S.C. § 185(a), where the court stated that it would either “afford a remedy to effectuate federal policy or ... deny all requested relief, should the relief sought contravene federal policy”
  • construing the phrase “tortious act within the state”
  • distributors’ divergent responses to plaintiff suggests no conspiracy existed

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Ct. App. N. Y. Certiorari denied.