U.S. S.E.C. v. PIRATE INVESTOR LLC

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Bruce D. Brown, Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Michael Conley, United States Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Bruce W. Sanford, Lee T. Ellis, Jr., Laurie A. Babinski, Baker & Hostetler, LLP., Washington, DC; Matthew J. Turner, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants. Brian G. Cartwright, General Counsel, Andrew N. Vollmer, Deputy General Counsel, Jacob H. Stillman, Solicitor, Mark Pennington, Assistant General Counsel, Rada L. Potts, Senior Litigation Counsel, Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. Walter Dellinger, Mark S. Davies, Allison Orr Larsen, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP., Washington, D.C.; Kai Falkenberg, Editorial Counsel, Forbes, L.L.C., New York, New York; Eve Burton, Jonathan Donnellan, The Hearst Corporation, New York, New York; David S. Bralow, Assistant General Counsel, Tribune Company, East Coast Publishing, New York, New York; Lucy A. Dalglish, Gregg P. Leslie, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia; Kevin M. Goldberg, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Arlington, Virginia; Kathleen A. Kirby, The Radio-Television News Directors Association, Washington, D.C.; Robert M. O'Neil, Josh Wheeler, The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Amici Supporting Appellants.

Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.