Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States

Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 11, 1953 Decided May 24, 1953
Full case name	Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States
Citations	345 U.S. 594 (more) 73 S.Ct. 872
Prior history	Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Holding
A publisher selling only combined insertions appearing in both its morning and evening papers does not violate the Sherman Act
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Robert H. Jackson · Harold H. Burton Tom C. Clark · Sherman Minton
Case opinions
Majority	Clark, joined by Vinson, Reed, Frankfurter, Jackson
Dissent	Burton, joined by Black, Douglas, Minton

Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States, 345 U.S. 594 (1953), is an antitrust law decision by the United States Supreme Court. In a 5–4 decision it held that a tie-in sale of morning and evening newspaper advertising space does not violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, because there was no market dominance in the tying product.^[1]

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 345
• Northern Pacific R. Co. v. United States (1958), a similar case
• Jefferson Parish Hospital Dist. No. 2 v. Hyde (1984), a case involving "tying arrangements"
• United States v. Loew's Inc. (1962), a case on product bundling

References

1. Turner, Donald F. (1958). "The Validity of Tying Arrangements under the Antitrust Laws". Harvard Law Review 72 (1): 50–75. JSTOR 1338363.

Further reading

• Markovits, Richard S. (1967). "Tie-ins, Reciprocity, and the Leverage Theory". Yale Law Journal 76 (7): 1397–1472. JSTOR 794828.
• Wollenberg, Keith K. (1987). "An Economic Analysis of Tie-In Sales: Re-Examining the Leverage Theory". Stanford Law Review 39 (3): 737–760. JSTOR 1228764.