Opinion
No. 93-2881.
October 1, 1998.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas; Lynn N. Hughes, Judge.
Kenneth E. Kuffner, Kuffner Associates, David Michael Gunn, Russell Stanley Post, Hogan, Dubos Townsend, Jeffrey Lowell Streets, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Michael Eugene Robinson, Mark Bernard Stern, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Robert V. Zener, Washington, DC, for Intervenor.
Patrick J. Feeney, Austin, TX, John Russel Feather, Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.
Charles S. Sims, Jon Alan Baumgarten, Prokaver, Rose, Goetz Mendelsohn, Charles J. Sanders, National Music Publishers Association, Carey R. Ramos, Peter L. Felcher, Stephanie A. Gore, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Garrison, New York City, for Association of American Publishers, Inc., The Authors Guild, Inc., Association of American University Presses, Inc., The National Music Publishers Association Inc., Software Publishers Association, American Society of Journalists Authors, Inc., American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. and Copyright Clearance Ctr., Inc., Amicus Curiae.
Michael R. Klipper, Christopher Allan Meyer, Meyer Klipper, Washington, DC, for American Society of Composers, Authors Publishers, Broadcast Music, Inc., Business Software Alliance, Inc., Information Industry Association, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., and Recording Industry Association of America, Amicus Curiae.
Joseph N. Welch, Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard Geraldson, Chicago, IL, for American Intellectual Property Law Association, Amicus Curiae.
Martin H. Redish, Northwestern School of Law, Chicago, IL for International Trademark Association, Amicus Curiae.
ON PETITIONS FOR REHEARING AND SUGGESTIONS FOR REHEARING EN BANC.
(Opinion August 1, 1995, 5 Cir., 1995, 59 F.3d 539)
(Opinion on Remand from U.S. Sup.Ct. April 20, 1998, 5 Cir., 1998, 139 F.3d 504)
(Modified Opinion April 20, 1998, 5 Cir., 1998, 157 F.3d 282)
Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and KING, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, DUHÉ, WIENER, BARKSDALE, EMILIO M. GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.
BY THE COURT:
A member of the court in active service having requested a poll on the suggestions for rehearing en banc and a majority of the judges in active service having voted in favor of granting the rehearings en banc,
IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs.