United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of indictment charging violation of the distribution and reproduction provisions of the criminal anti-bootlegging statute is vacated where Congress was free to act under the Commerce Clause to enact 18 U.S.C. section 2319A(a)(1) and (3).

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2007
• Published 06/13/2007

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  POOLER and SACK, Circuit Judges, and GARAUFIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Samidh Guha, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter G. Neiman, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), New York, NY, for Appellant., David E. Patton, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., Appeals Bureau (Yuanchung Lee on the brief), New York, NY., Paul Bender, Michael R. Klipper, Christopher A. Mohr, Meyer, Klipper & Mohr, PLLC, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Association of American Publishers, American Business Media, CoStar Group, Inc;  National Association of Realtors®, Reed Elsevier, Inc., and the Software & Information Industry Association, in support of Appellant., Robert W. Clarida, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., for Amici Curiae UMG Recordings, Inc., EMI Music North America d/b/a Capitol Records, Inc., Warner Music Inc., Univision Music LLC, d/b/a Univision Music Group, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Recording Artists Coalition and National Music Publishers Association, Inc. in support of Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer M. Urban, Director, Intellectual Property Clinic, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law (Lydia Wahlke and Anne DePree, Clinical Interns, on the brief), Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Curiae Internet Archive, American Association of Law Libraries, Association of Research Libraries and Special Libraries Association in support of Defendant-Appellee., Deirdre K. Mulligan, Director, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall) (Jack I. Lerner, Clinic Fellow, on the brief), Berkeley, CA, for Amici Curiae Twenty-Nine Intellectual Property and Constitutional Law Professors in support of Defendant-Appellee.