From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1964
‘U.S. ROCKS AND REELS FROM BEATLES’ INVASION’
CAPITOL VS VEE-JAY RECORDS TIED IN COURT HERE
CHICAGO — The Capitol vs Vee-Jay lawsuit was in what one attorney described as “a state of limbo,” with counsel for both sides due in Appelate Court last Friday afternoon, for further hearings. February 7.
Last Wednesday, the Appelate Court granted Vee-Jay a stay on Capitol’s injunction prohibiting Vee-Jay from selling Beatles records.
The stay was issued pending Vee-Jay’s appeal and on the condition Vee-Jay post a $30,000 bond. The bond was posted, but meanwhile, Capitol attorneys filed a petition for rehearing.
The rehearing was scheduled for Friday, February 9, and the court held off approval of the Vee-Jay bond pending the outcome of the hearing. Vee-Jay thus continued to be prohibited from shipping or manufacturing Beatles records, though the situation could be conceivably different as this issue comes off the press. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; February 15, 1964)
MCRFB ADDENDUM
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