United States Ninth Circuit

In an action under the the National Labor Relations Act seeking an injunction to reinstate employees whom defendant-newspaper discharged for union activity directed at pressuring the newspaper's owner and publisher to refrain from exercising editorial control over news reporting, denial of a temporary injunction is affirmed where intervening to support the employees' effort to limit the control of the owner over its news pages necessarily posed some risk to that owner's First Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/11/2009
• Decided 01/26/2010
• Published 01/26/2010

Judges

• Before MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, RICHARD R. CLIFTON and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald Meisburg, John E. Higgins, Jr., Barry J. Kearney, Judith I. Katz, Steven L. Sokolow, and Margaret E. Luke (argued), National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C., for the petitioner-appellant., Barbara L. Camens, Barr & Camens, Washington, D.C.; Ira L. Gottlieb, Bush Gottlieb Singer Lopez Kohanski Adelstein & Dickenson, Glendale, CA, for amici curiae the Graphics Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Newspaper Guild/Communications Workers of America., L. Michael Zinser, The Zinser Law Firm, P.C., Nashville, TN; Bruce D. Brown, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Newspaper Association of America., L. Michael Zinser, The Zinser Law Firm, P.C., Nashville, TN, for amici curiae Gannett Co., Inc.; Lee Enterprises, Inc.; Medianews Group, Inc.; and Stephens Media, LLC.


• For Appellees:
  
• Framroze M. Virjee and Michael Garrison, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Sri Srinivasan (argued), O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Ryan W. Rutledge, O'Melveny Myers, LLP, Newport Beach, CA; A. Barry Cappello, Troy A. Thielemann, Matthew Clarke, and Dugan Kelley, Cappello & Noel, LLP, Santa Barbara, CA, for the respondent-appellee.