Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States

Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States, 345 U.S. 594 (1953), is an antitrust law decision by the United States Supreme Court.^[1] 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.^[2]

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; 97 L. Ed. 2d 1277; 1953 U.S. LEXIS 2716
Case history
Prior	105 F. Supp. 670 (E.D. La. 1952); probable jurisdiction noted, 73 S. Ct. 173 (1952).
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
Laws applied
Sherman Antitrust Act

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 345
• 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