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IN RE SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

No. 09-1090.

564 F.3d 1 (2009)

In re SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT et al., Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 16, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Cloherty, with whom Victoria L. Steinberg, Dwyer & Collora, LLP, Eve G. Burton, Timothy M. Reynolds, Laurie J. Rust, and Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP were on brief, for petitioners.

Charles R. Nesson, for respondent Joel Tenenbaum.

Jonathan Sherman, with whom Dean Kawamoto, Melissa Felder, and Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP were on brief, for Courtroom View Network, amicus curiae.

Matthew H. Feinberg, Feinberg & Kamholtz, Cindy Cohn, and Kurt Opsahl on brief, for Electric Frontier Foundation, Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Media Access Project, Internet Archive, Free Press, California First Amendment Coalition, and Ben Sheffner, amici curiae.

Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This mandamus proceeding requires us to address a question of first impression: does a federal district judge have the authority to permit gavel-to-gavel webcasting of a hearing in a civil case?1 The district court thought that it had that authority. Capitol Records, Inc. v. Alaujan, 593 F.Supp.2d 319, 324-25 (D.Mass.2009). After careful consideration, we hold that...

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