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FLO & EDDIE, INC. v. SIRIUS XM RADIO, INC.

Docket No. 15-1164-cv August Term, 2015.

849 F.3d 14 (2017)

FLO & EDDIE, INC., a California Corporation, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SIRIUS XM RADIO, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellant, Does, 1 through 10, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Question Certified: April 13, 2016.

Certified Question Answered: December 20, 2016.

Decided: February 16, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

HARVEY GELLER ( Henry Gradstein , Maryann R. Marzano , on the brief), GRADSTEIN & MARZANO, P.C., Los Angeles, CA; ( Evan S. Cohen , on the brief), Los Angeles, CA; Michael Gervais , Arun S. Subramanian , SUSMAN GODFREY LLP, New York, NY; Robert Rimberg , GOLDBERG RIMBERG & WEG PLLC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

DANIEL M. PETROCELLI ( Cassandra L. Seto , on the brief), O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP, Los Angeles, CA; ( Johnathan D. Hacker , on the brief), O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP, Washington, DC; for Defendant-Appellant.

BRANDON BUTLER , AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Law Professors Gary Pulsinelli, Julie Ross, and Peter Jaszi, in support of Defendant-Appellant.

EUGENE VOLOKH , UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW, Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Curiae Howard Abrams, Brandon Butler, Michael Carrier, Michael Carroll, Ralph Clifford, Brian Frye, William Gallagher, Eric Goldman, James Grimmelmann, Yvette Liebesman, Brian Love, Tyler Ochoa, David Olson, David Post, Michael Risch, Matthew Sag, Rebecca Tushnet, and David Welkowitz, in support of Defendant-Appellant.

MITCHELL STOLTZ , VERA RANIERI , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, in support of Defendant-Appellant.

R. BRUCE RICH , BENJAMIN E. MARKS , GREGORY SILBERT , TODD LARSON , KAMI LIZARRAGA , WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Pandora Media, Inc., in support of Defendant-Appellant.

SHERWIN SIY , JOHN BERGMAYER , RAZA PANJWANI , Public Knowledge, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Public Knowledge, in support of Defendant-Appellant.

STEPHEN B. KINNAIRD , PAUL HASTINGS LLP, Washington, DC; RICK KAPLAN , National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC; for Amicus Curiae National Association of Broadcasters, in support of Defendant-Appellant.

ADAM R. BIALEK , STEPHEN J. BARRETT , WILSON ELSER MOSKOWITZ EDELMAN & DICKER LLP, New York, NY; DAVID L. DONOVAN , New York State Broadcasters Association, Inc., Albany, NY; for Amicus Curiae New York State Broadcasters Association, Inc., in support of Defendant-Appellant.

Before: Calabresi, Chin, and Carney, Circuit Judges.

On September 3, 2013, Flo & Eddie, Inc. ("Appellee"), a California corporation that asserts it owns the recordings of "The Turtles," a well-known rock band with a string of hits in the 1960s, sued Sirius XM Radio, Inc. ("Appellant"), a Delaware corporation that is the largest radio and internet-radio broadcaster in the United States. The...

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