SAM FRANCIS FOUNDATION; Estate of Robert Graham; Chuck Close; Laddie John Dill, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
CHRISTIES, INC., a New York corporation, Defendant-Appellee.
Sam Francis Foundation; Estate of Robert Graham; Chuck Close; Laddie John Dill, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
eBay, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendant-Appellee.
Estate of Robert Graham; Chuck Close; Laddie John Dill, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Sotheby's, Inc., a New York corporation, Defendant-Appellee.
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Argued and Submitted En Banc December 16, 2014.
Filed May 5, 2015.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Eric M. George (argued) and Ira Bibbero, Browne George Ross LLP, and Irving H. Greines and Gary D. Rowe, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Deanne E. Maynard (argued), Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, D.C., and Paul T. Friedman, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA; John C. Dwyer, Angela L. Dunning, and Joshua M. Siegel, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Michael G. Rhodes, San Francisco, CA; Jason D. Russell, Hillary A. Hamilton, Allon Kedem, Michael McIntosh, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; and Steven A. Reiss, Howard B. Comet, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendants-Appellees.
Aimee Feinberg (argued), Deputy Solicitor General, Gavin G. McCabe, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, Edward C. DuMont, Solicitor General, Mark J. Breckler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and Robert W. Byrne, Senior Assistant Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae State of CA.
Steven A. Hirsch and Katherine M. Lovett, Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, CA; Craig A. Pinedo, PinedoLaw, San Francisco, CA, and Jesse H. Choper, University of California School of Law (Boalt), Berkeley, CA; Michael Tenenbaum, Santa Monica, CA; Greg Christianson and Jeremy Esterkin, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, and Melissa Grant and Arnab Banerjee, Capstone Law APC, Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Curiae.
Opinion by Judge GRABER; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge REINHARDT; Concurrence by JUDGE BERZON.
OPINION
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
California's Resale Royalty Act requires the seller of fine art to pay the artist a five percent royalty if "the seller resides in California or the sale takes place in California." Cal. Civ.Code § 986(a). Plaintiffs in these consolidated appeals are artists and the estates of artists. Sitting en banc...
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