City of Oakland v. hotels.com Lp

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CITY OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v.

HOTELS.COM LP; HOTELS.COM GP,

LLC; TRIP NETWORK, INC., d/b/a Cheap Tickets, Inc.; TRAVELPORT, INC., f/k/a Cendant Travel No. 07-17258 Distribution Services Group Inc.; EXPEDIA, INC.; INTERNETWORK  D.C. No.

CV-07-03432-SBA

PUBLISHING CORP., d/b/a Lodging.com; LOWESTFARE.COM OPINION

INC.; ORBITZ, INC.; ORBITZ, LLC;

PRICELINE.COM, INC.; SABRE

HOLDINGS CORP.; SITE59.COM, LLC;

TRAVELOCITY.COM INC;

TRAVELOCITY.COM LP; TRAVELWEB

LLC; TRAVELNOW.COM, INC.,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Saundra B. Armstrong, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 17, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed July 16, 2009

9149 9150 CITY OF OAKLAND v. HOTELS.COM Before: John T. Noonan, Glenn L. Archer, Jr.,* and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge McKeown

*The Honorable Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation. CITY OF…