Steve GATES, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, INC., et al., Defendants and Appellants.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 6, 2004.
Certiorari Denied October 3, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Leopold, Petrich & Smith, Louis P. Petrich and Robert S. Gutierrez, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants.
McDermott Will & Emery, Robert H. Rotstein and Nicholas F. Oettinger for the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.
Davis Wright Tremaine, Gary L. Bostwick, Kelli L. Sager and Marc A. Fuller, Los Angeles, for CBS Broadcasting, Inc., The Copley Press, Inc., The McClatchy Company, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, Bloomberg L.P., the First Amendment Project, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the California First Amendment Coalition as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.
Niles R. Sharif, La Mesa, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.
Certiorari Denied October 3, 2005. See 126 S.Ct. 368.
WERDEGAR, J.
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