CODE REVISION COM'N v. PUBLIC RESOURCE.ORG, INC.

No. 17-11589.

906 F.3d 1229 (2018)

CODE REVISION COMMISSION, FOR the Benefit of and on behalf of GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA, State of Georgia, Plaintiffs-Counter Defendant-Appellees, v. PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC., Defendant-Counter Claimant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 19, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony B. Askew , Lisa Pavento , Warren James Thomas , Meunier Carlin & Curfman, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Elizabeth Hannah Rader , Sarah Parker LaFantano , Jason Demian Rosenberg , Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Esha Bhandari , ACLU Foundation, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION.

Esha Bhandari , Vera Eidelman , ACLU Foundation, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF GEORGIA.

Charles Duan , R. Street Institute, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES, THE INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, THE ORGANIZATION FOR TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS.

Phillip R. Malone , Jeffrey Theodore Pearlman , Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, Erica Sollazzo , Juelsgaard IP & Innovation Clinic, Stanford Law School, STANFORD, CA, for Amicus Curiae NEXT GENERATION LEGAL RESEARCH PLATFORMS, THE OPENGOV FOUNDATION, RAVEL, CASETEXT, FREE LAW PROJECT, JUDICATA.

Before MARCUS and HULL, Circuit Judges, and BUCKLEW, District Judge.


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