Case: 13-3148 Document: 20-2 Filed: 01/10/2014 Pages: 43 No. 13-3148 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT INTERCON SOLUTIONS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BASEL ACTION NETWORK AND JAMES PUCKETT, Defendants-Appellants. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Case No. 12-CV-6814 (Hon. Virginia M. Kendall) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE ADVANCE PUBLICATIONS, INC., ALLIED DAILY NEWSPAPERS OF WASHINGTON, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWS EDITORS, ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA, THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS, INC., BLOOMBERG L.P., CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., DOW JONES & COMPANY, INC., THE E.W. SCRIPPS COMPANY, HEARST CORPORATION, THE MCCLATCHY COMPANY, MEDIA LAW RESOURCE CENTER, THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, INC., NEWS CORPORATION, NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION, PRO PUBLICA, INC., RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS ASSOCIATION, REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, SEATTLE TIMES COMPANY, SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS, TIME INC., TRIBUNE COMPANY, THE WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, AND THE WASHINGTON POST IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS AND REVERSAL _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Bruce E. H. Johnson Laura R. Handman Ambika K. Doran Alison Schary DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2200 1919 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Seattle, WA 98101 Suite 800 (206) 622-3150 Washington, DC 20006 (202) 973-4200 Thomas R. Burke DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP Counsel for Amici Curiae 505 Montgomery Street, Suite 800 San Francisco, CA 94111 (*Of counsel listed on inside cover) (415) 276-6500 Case: 13-3148 Document: 20-2 Filed: 01/10/2014 Pages: 43 OF COUNSEL Richard A. Bernstein Mark H. Jackson SABIN, BERMANT & GOULD LLP Jacob P. Goldstein 4 Times Square, 23rd Floor Jason Conti New York, NY 10036 DOW JONES & COMPANY, INC. Counsel for Advance Publications, NEWS CORPORATION Inc. 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 Kevin M. Goldberg Counsel for Dow Jones & Company, FLETCHER HEALD & HILDRETH Inc. and News Corporation 1300 North 17th Street, 11th Floor Arlington, VA 22209 David Giles Counsel for the American Society THE E.W. SCRIPPS COMPANY of News Editors and the 312 Walnut Street, Suite 2800 Association of Alternative Cincinnati, OH 45202 Newsmedia Counsel for The E.W. Scripps Company Jonathan Bloom WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP Jonathan Donnellan 767 Fifth Avenue Kristina Findikyan New York, NY 10153 HEARST CORPORATION Counsel for The Association of 300 West 57th Street, 40th Floor American Publishers, Inc. New York, NY 10019 Counsel for Hearst Corporation Randy L. Shapiro BLOOMBERG L.P. Karole Morgan-Prager 731 Lexington Avenue Juan Cornejo New York, NY 10022 THE MCCLATCHY COMPANY Counsel for Bloomberg L.P. 2100 Q Street Sacramento, CA 95816 David Vigilante Counsel for The McClatchy Company CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC. One CNN Center Sandra S. Baron Atlanta, GA 30303 Kathleen A. Hirce Counsel for Cable News Network, MEDIA LAW RESOURCE CENTER Inc. 520 Eighth Avenue North Tower—20th Floor New York, NY 10018 Counsel for Media Law Resource Center Case: 13-3148 Document: 20-2 Filed: 01/10/2014 Pages: 43 Charles D. Tobin Kathleen A. Kirby HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP WILEY REIN & FIELDING LLP 800 17th Street NW, Suite 1100 1776 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Washington, DC 20006 Counsel for The National Press Club Counsel for Radio Television Digital News Association Mickey H. Osterreicher Bruce D. Brown NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS Gregg P. Leslie ASSOCIATION THE EPORTERS OMMITTEE FOR 1100 M&T Center R C 3 Fountain Plaza FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Buffalo, NY 14203 1101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1100 Counsel for National Press Arlington, VA 22209 Photographers Association Counsel for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Denise Leary Bruce W. Sanford Ashley Messenger Laurie A. Babinski NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, INC. BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 1111 N. Capitol Street NE 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20002 Suite 1100 Counsel for National Public Washington, DC 20036 Radio, Inc. Counsel for Society of Professional Journalists Kurt Wimmer COVINGTON & BURLING LLP Andrew Lachow 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW TIME INC. Washington, DC 20004 1271 Avenue of the Americas Counsel for Newspaper New York, NY 10020 Association of America Counsel for Time Inc. Jonathan D. Hart Karen H. Flax COOLEY LLP Jeffrey Glasser 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW TRIBUNE COMPANY Suite 700 435 North Michigan Avenue Washington, DC 20004 Chicago, IL 60611 Counsel for Online News Association Counsel for Tribune Company Richard J. Tofel John B. Kennedy PRO PUBLICA, INC. James A. McLaughlin 55 Broadway, 23rd Floor THE WASHINGTON POST New York, NY 10006 1150 15th Street, NW Counsel for Pro Publica, Inc. Washington, DC 20071 Counsel for The Washington Post Case: 13-3148 Document: 20-2 Filed: 01/10/2014 Pages: 43 CORPORATE DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS Pursuant to Circuit Rule 26.1 and Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 29(c) and 26.1, amici state that they have not appeared earlier in this case and that they are represented in this brief by the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Amici provide the following disclosures of corporate identity: Advance Publications, Inc. has no parent corporation, and no publicly held corporation owns 10% or more of its stock. Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington is a nonprofit trade association with no parent corporation and no stock. The American Society of News Editors is a private, non-stock corporation that has no parent. The Association of Alternative Newsmedia has no parent corporation and does not issue any stock. The Association of American Publishers, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation that has no parent company and issues no stock. Bloomberg L.P. d/b/a Bloomberg News is a privately held company. Cable News Network, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., which itself is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., a publicly traded corporation. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (“Dow Jones”) discloses that News Corporation, a publicly held company, is the indirect parent corporation of Dow Jones. Ruby Newco, LLC, a subsidiary of News Corporation and a non-publicly i Case: 13-3148 Document: 20-2 Filed: 01/10/2014 Pages: 43 held company, is the direct parent of Dow Jones. No publicly held company owns 10% or more of the stock of Dow Jones. The E.W. Scripps Company is a publicly traded corporation. It has no parent corporation, and no publicly owned company owns 10% or more of its stock. Hearst Corporation is a diversified, privately held media company. No publicly held company owns 10% or more of its stock. The McClatchy Company is a publicly owned corporation. The Media Law Resource Center has no parent corporation and issues no stock. The National Press Club is a not-for-profit corporation that has no parent company and issues no stock. The National Press Photographers Association is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization that has no parent company and issues no stock. National Public Radio, Inc. is a privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization that has no parent company and issues no stock. News Corporation has no parent company and no publicly held company owns 10% or more of its shares. The Newspaper Association of America is a non-stock corporation with no parent corporation, and no publicly held corporation owns 10% or more of any form of interest in it. The Online News Association is a nonprofit organization. It has no parent company and issues no stock. ii Case: 13-3148 Document: 20-2 Filed: 01/10/2014 Pages: 43 Pro Publica, Inc. is a Delaware non-stock, nonprofit corporation. The Radio Television Digital News Association is a trade organization with no parent corporation and no stock. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is an unincorporated association of reporters and editors with no parent corporation and no stock. Blethen Corporation owns a majority of the voting stock of Seattle Times Company, and The McClatchy Company owns 10% or more of its stock. The Society of Professional Journalists is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with no parent company and no stock. Time Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., a publicly traded corporation. No publicly held corporation owns 10% or more of Time Warner Inc.‘s stock. Tribune Company is a privately held company. The Washington Newspaper Publishers Association is a nonprofit trade organization with no parent corporation and no stock. Nash Holdings LLC is the sole parent of WP Company LLC (d/b/a The Washington Post). Nash Holdings LLC is privately held and does not have any outstanding securities in the hands of the public. iii Case: 13-3148 Document: 20-2 Filed: 01/10/2014 Pages: 43 TABLE OF CONTENTS CORPORATE DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS ........................................................................... i TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ........................................................................................................ iv IDENTITY AND INTEREST OF AMICI ..................................................................................1 SOURCE OF AUTHORITY TO FILE ......................................................................................1 ARGUMENT ..................................................................................................................................2