Read In re: Napster, Inc. Copyright Litig., 06-15886, 06-72515

In a civil case in which outright disclosure of attorney-client communications is sought under the crime-fraud exception: 1) both parties have a right to present evidence to the district court; and 2) the party seeking disclosure must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the exception applies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/14/2007
• Published 03/14/2007

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before FERNANDEZ, W. FLETCHER, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. Bruce Rich, Kenneth L. Steinthal, Elizabeth Stotland Weiswasser, Jonathan Bloom, Mark J. Fiore, Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York, NY;  Matthew D. Powers, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Redwood Shores, California;  Gayle E. Rosenstein, Gregory S. Coleman (argued) and Marc S. Tabolsky, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Austin, TX, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel P. Collins, Glenn Douglas Pomerantz, Kelly M. Klaus, Fred A. Rowley, Jr., Munger Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA;  Carey Ramos, Lynn B. Bayard, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY;  Peter L. Simmons, Mitchell E. Epner, Fried Frank Harris Shriver Jacobson, New York, NY, for the appellees.