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IN RE NAPSTER, INC. COPYRIGHT LITIGATION

Nos. 06-15886, 06-72515.

479 F.3d 1078 (2007)

In re NAPSTER, INC. COPYRIGHT LITIGATION, UMG Recording, Inc.; Interscope Records; Motown Record Company, L.P.; Jerry Leiber; Mike Stoller, Individually and dba as Mike Stoller Music; Frank Music Corporation; Peer International Corporation, on Behalf of Themselves & All Others Similarly Situated; Capitol Records, Inc.; Caroline Records, Inc.; Noo Trybe Records, Inc.; Virgin Records America, Inc.; Narada Productions, Inc.; Higher Octave Music, Inc.; Priority Records LLC; Forefront Communications Group, Inc.; Jubilee Communications, Inc.; Emi Christian Music Group, Inc.; Bridgeport Music, Inc.; Southfield Music, Inc.; Westbound Records, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Bertelsmann AG; Bertelsmann, Inc.; Bemusic, Inc., Defendants-Appellants, and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; Hummer Winblad Venture Partners IV, LP; Hummer Winblad Technology Fund IV, LP; Hummer Winblad Equity Partners IV, LLC; Hank Barry; John Hummer, Defendants. In re Bertelsmann, Inc.; In re Bemusic, Inc.; In re Bertelsmann AG, Bertelsmann AG; Bertelsmann, Inc.; Bemusic, Inc., Petitioners, v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Respondent, Capitol Records, Inc.; Caroline Records, Inc.; Noo Trybe Records, Inc.; Virgin Records America, Inc.; Narada Productions, Inc.; Higher Octave Music, Inc.; Priority Records LLC; Forefront Communications Group, Inc.; Jubilee Communications, Inc.; Emi Christian Music Group, Inc.; UMG Recordings Inc.; Interscope Records; Motown Record Company; Jerry Leiber, Individually and dba Jerry Leiber Music; Mike Stoller, Individually and dba as Mike Stoller Music; Frank Music Corporation; Peer International Corporation, Real Parties in Interest.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 14, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Bruce Rich, Kenneth L. Steinthal, Elizabeth Stotland Weiswasser, Jonathan Bloom, Mark J. Fiore, Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York, NY; Matthew D. Powers, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Redwood Shores, California; Gayle E. Rosenstein, Gregory S. Coleman (argued) and Marc S. Tabolsky, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Austin, TX, for the appellants.

Daniel P. Collins, Glenn Douglas Pomerantz, Kelly M. Klaus, Fred A. Rowley, Jr., Munger Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA; Carey Ramos, Lynn B. Bayard, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY; Peter L. Simmons, Mitchell E. Epner, Fried Frank Harris Shriver Jacobson, New York, NY, for the appellees.

Before FERNANDEZ, W. FLETCHER, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, we must decide whether the district court properly ordered the disclosure of privileged attorney-client communications under the crime-fraud exception. We hold that in a civil case the district court must allow both the party seeking discovery of the communications and the party asserting the privilege to present evidence relevant to the privilege and the exception, and must weigh that evidence before ordering outright...

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