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YOUNG v. NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE

No. 01-2340.

315 F.3d 256 (2002)

Stanley K. YOUNG, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE; Gail Thompson; Camille Jackson; Hartford Courant; Brian Toolan; Amy Pagnozzi, Defendants-Appellants, and Michael Lawlor; Carolyn Nah; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Connecticut Post; Rick Sawyers; Ken Dixon, Defendants. Advance Publications, Incorporated; American Society of Newspaper Editors; Associated Press; Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; Belo Corporation; Bloomberg, L.P.; Center for Democracy & Technology; Daily News, L.P.; Dow Jones and Company, Incorporated; El Dia, Incorporated; the E.W. Scripps Company; the Hearst Corporation; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Incorporated; Magazine Publishers of America; the McClatchy Company; National Association of Broadcasters; Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association; Newspaper Association of America; the New York Times; Online News Association; the Radio-Television News Directors Association; the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Society of Professional Journalists; Village Voice Media, Incorporated; the Washington Post Company; Ziff Davis Media, Incorporated, Amici Supporting Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 13, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Robert Douglass Lystad, Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Robert Stuart Collins, Fleming & Collins, P.C., Norton, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Bruce W. Sanford, Bruce D. Brown, Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.; Wade W. Massie, Penn, Stuart & Eskridge, Abington, Virginia; Stephanie S. Abrutyn, Tribune Company, New York, New York, for Appellants. Robert M. O'Neil, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, Charlottesville, Virginia; George Rutherglen, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Amici Curiae.

Before MICHAEL and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and Bobby R. BALDOCK, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Reversed by published opinion. Judge MICHAEL wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Senior Judge BALDOCK joined.

OPINION

MICHAEL, Circuit Judge.

The question in this appeal is whether two Connecticut newspapers and certain of their staff (sometimes, the "newspaper defendants") subjected themselves to personal jurisdiction in Virginia by posting on the Internet news articles that, in the context of discussing the State of Connecticut's policy...

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