District Court, S.D. New York June 1, 1978, No. 72 Civ. 542 (Bernstein v. Universal Pictures, Inc.)

BRIEANT, District Judge.

On March 9, 1978, at a regularly scheduled pre-trial conference attended by counsel for all the parties, the Court, on its own initiative, raised the question whether the sheer size of this antitrust litigation and the complexity of the issues involved did not place the matter beyond the capacity of a jury’s proper understanding and consequently render it unfit for jury