United States Second Circuit

Order certifying a class of freelance authors and approving a settlement of their copyright infringement claims arising from the unauthorized electronic reproduction of their work is vacated where the District Court lacked jurisdiction over the overwhelming majority of class members' claims, as they concern the infringement of unregistered copyrights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/29/2007
• Published 11/29/2007

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  WINTER and WALKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles D. Chalmers, Fairfax, CA, for Objectors-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles S. Sims, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, N.Y. (Stephen Rackow Kaye, Joshua W. Ruthizer, Proskauer Rose LLP;  Kenneth Richieri, George Freeman, The New York Times Company, New York, NY;  Henry B. Gutman, Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, New York, NY;  James F. Rittinger, Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke, New York, NY;  Jack Weiss, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY;  Juli Wilson Marshall, Latham & Watkins, Chicago, IL;  Ian Ballon, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Santa Monica, CA;  Michael Denniston, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Birmingham, AL;  Christopher M. Graham, Levett Rockwood P.C., Westport, CT;  Raymond Castello, Fish & Richardson PC, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees., Michael J. Boni, Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA (Joshua D. Snyder, Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C.;  Diane S. Rice, Hosie McArthur LLP, San Francisco, CA;  A.J. De Bartolomeo, Girard Gibbs & De Bartolomeo LLP, San Francisco, CA;  Gary Fergus, Fergus, A Law Firm, San Francisco, CA, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.