SALINGER v. COLTING

Docket No. 09-2878-cv.

607 F.3d 68 (2010)

Colleen M. SALINGER and Matthew R. Salinger, as Trustees of the J.D. Salinger Literary Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Fredrik COLTING, writing under the name John David California, Windupbird Publishing Ltd., Nicotext A.B., and ABP, Inc., doing business as SCB Distributors, Inc, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 30, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia Beth Paul, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Edward H. Rosenthal (Maura J. Wogan, Jessie F. Beeber, Cameron A. Myler, Marisa Sarig, on the brief), Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz P.C., New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants.

David E. Kendall, Thomas G. Hentoff, Kannon K. Shanmugam, Hannah M. Stott-Bumsted, Scott K. Dasovich, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Anthony T. Falzone, Julie A. Ahrens, Sarah H. Pearson, Stanford Law School, Center for Internet & Society, Stanford, CA; Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC; Jennifer M. Urban, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, CA, for Amici Curiae American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Association of College and Research Libraries, The Organization for Transformative Works and the Right to Write Fund in support of Defendants-Appellants.

George Freeman, Itai Maytal, The New York Times Company, Legal Department, New York, NY, (Barbara W. Wall, Gannett Co., Inc., McLean, VA; Karen Flax, Tribune Company, Chicago, IL, of counsel), for Amici Curiae The New York Times Company, Gannett Co., Inc., and Tribune Company in support of Defendants-Appellants.

Deepak Gupta, Gregory A. Beck, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC; Dan Hunter, New York Law School, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Public Citizen, Inc.

Before: CALABRESI, CABRANES, HALL, Circuit Judges.


CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-Appellants Fredrik Colting, Windupbird Publishing Ltd., Nicotext A.B., and ABP, Inc. appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Deborah A. Batts, Judge) granting Plaintiff-Appellee J.D. Salinger's1 motion for a preliminary injunction. The District Court's judgment is VACATED and REMANDED.

BACKGROUND

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