United States Ninth Circuit

In an en banc panel decision involving a dispute between a French civil liberties groups and a US internet service provider arising out of the web-display of Nazi memorabilia, the US district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over two of the French parties. A plurality of the en banc panel concludes that the case is not ripe under the criteria of Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner, 387 U.S. 136, 149 (1967).

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/24/2005
• Decided 01/12/2006
• Published 01/12/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and FERGUSON, O'SCANNLAIN, HAWKINS, TASHIMA, W. FLETCHER, FISHER, GOULD, PAEZ, CLIFTON, and BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ann Brick, ACLU, San Francisco, California;  John B. Morris, Jr., Alan B. Davidson, Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, DC, for amici American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, et al., Jodie L. Kelley, Brian Hauck, Jenner & Block, Washington, DC;  Stephen A. Bokat, Robin S. Conrad, Joshua A. Ulman, National Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, DC, Robert Corn-Revere, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, DC, for amici Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al., and for amicus Center for Democracy.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randol Schoenberg, Burris & Schoenberg, Los Angeles, CA;  Robert A. Christopher, Coudert Brothers, Palo Alto, CA;  Mark D. Lebow, Sokolow Carreras, New York, NY, for the defendants-appellants., Michael Traynor, Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddelson & Tatum, San Francisco, CA;  Robert C. Vanderet, O'Melveney & Myers, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.