Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc

In Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 327 U.S. 251, 264 (1945), the Court held that the plaintiff's damages were not too speculative to support the jury's verdict of damages. 327 U.S. at 265. There, the movie theater owner plaintiffs claimed that defendant distributors and affiliated movie theaters conspired to prevent the plaintiffs from obtaining movies for their theaters until after the defendant theaters had shown them. Id. at 254. The Court permitted the jury to consider evidence of decline in prices, profits and values not shown to be attributable to other causes to calculate the quantum of damage caused by the defendants' unlawful acts. Id. at 264.