Linkline

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LINKLINE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.; 

INREACH INTERNET LLC; OM

NETWORKS, dba Omsoft Technologies, Inc.; NITELOG, INC., dba Red Shift Internet Services, No. 05-56023 Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-05265-SVW

SBC CALIFORNIA, INC., fka Pacific OPINION Bell Telephone Company; PACIFIC

BELL INTERNET SERVICES; SBC

ADVANCED SOLUTIONS, INC.,

Defendants-Appellants.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 5, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed September 11, 2007

Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Thomas; Dissent by Judge Gould

12177 12180 LINKLINE COMMUNICATIONS v. SBC CALIFORNIA

COUNSEL

Robert A. Mittelstaedt and Craig E. Stewart, Jones Day, San Francisco, California, for appellants SBC California, Inc., Pacific Bell Internet Services, and SBC Advanced Solutions, Inc.

Maxwell M. Blecher and Gary M. Joye, Blecher & Collins, P.C., Los Angeles, California, for…