Shloss v. Sweeney et al

Filing 39

Declaration of David Olson in Support of 32 Memorandum in Opposition, filed byCarol Loeb Shloss. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A (Part 1)# 2 Exhibit A (Part 2)# 3 Exhibit A (Part 3)# 4 Exhibit A (Part 4)# 5 Exhibit B (Part 1)# 6 Exhibit B (Part 2)# 7 Exhibit B (Part 3)# 8 Exhibit B (Part 4)# 9 Exhibit B (Part 5)# 10 Exhibit B (Part 6)# 11 Exhibit B (Part 7)# 12 Exhibit C)(Related document(s) 32 ) (Falzone, Anthony) (Filed on 12/15/2006)

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Shloss v. Sweeney et al Doc. 39 Case 5:06-cv-03718-JW Document 39 Filed 12/15/2006 Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Lawrence Lessig Anthony T. Falzone (SBN 190845) David S. Olson (SBN 231675) STANFORD LAW SCHOOL CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, California 94305-8610 Telephone: (650) 724-0517 Facsimile: (650) 723-4426 E-mail: falzone@stanford.edu Mark A. Lemley (SBN 155830) Matthew M. Werdegar (SBN 200470) KEKER & VAN NEST LLP 710 Sansome Street San Francisco, California 94111 Telephone: (415) 391-5400 Facsimile: (415) 397-7188 E-mail: mwerdegar@kvn.com Bernard A. Burk (SBN 118083) Robert Spoo (pro hac vice) HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI CANADY FALK & RABKIN, a Professional Corporation Three Embarcadero Center, 7th Floor San Francisco, California 94111-4024 Telephone: (415) 434-1600 Facsimile: (415) 217-5910 E-mail: bburk@howardrice.com Attorneys for Plaintiff UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN JOSE DIVISION CAROL LOEB SHLOSS, Plaintiff, v. SEAN SWEENEY, in his capacity as trustee of the Estate of James Joyce, and THE ESTATE OF JAMES JOYCE Defendants. No. C 06 3718 JW HRL DECLARATION OF DAVID S. OLSON IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF'S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS DECLARATION OF DAVID S. OLSON -1Dockets.Justia.com Case 5:06-cv-03718-JW Document 39 Filed 12/15/2006 Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DAVID S. OLSON declares and states as follows: 1. I am an attorney admitted to practice in California and in this district and I am one of the attorneys of record for plaintiff Carol Loeb Shloss. I have personal knowledge of the facts set forth in this declaration, and could testify competently to them if called to do so. I submit this declaration in support of Plaintiff's opposition to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss. 2. The original Complaint in this case was filed on June 12, 2006. [Docket No. 1]. 3. Professor Shloss's Website, which is the subject of this suit, was complete as of the filing of the suit in June 2006. In fact the Website was complete as of November 2005, as can be seen by the fact that the Estate's Irish lawyer, Grace Smith, attached a copy of the Website as Exhibit 2 to her Declaration in support of Defendants Motion to Dismiss. Because the version that Smith provided as her Exhibit 2 is hard to read, a true and correct copy of the Website as it existed in 2005 is attached as Exhibit A to this declaration. Note that this is the identical Website to that shown in Smith Declaration Exhibit 2, it is just more legible. 4. After filing the Complaint, Professor Shloss supplemented her Website one time in the summer of 2006. The supplementation made clear the sources for the materials already quoted on the Website, and also added a substantial number of additional quotations from relevant materials including Lucia Joyce's writings, the 1922 version of Ulysses, and portions of the James Joyce Finnegans Wake Notebooks. 5. On July 25, 2006, I informed counsel for Defendants, Maria Nelson, that material was being added to the Website. I told her that we would provide her with access to the supplemented Website and offered to give Defendants any necessary extensions to their deadline to respond to the Complaint. 6. On August 24, 2006, I sent Defendants' counsel a link and password needed to access the Website as well as a document showing all of the rest of the quotations that were going to appear on the Website (but that didn't quite yet appear due to a delay in coding on the Website). As of this date no additional quotes were ever added beyond what I provided Ms. Nelson. Thus, as of August 24, 2006, Defendants knew the entire universe of material to be published on the Website. Defendants have been able to continually monitor the Website since then, and thus know that no DECLARATION OF DAVID S. OLSON -1- Case 5:06-cv-03718-JW Document 39 Filed 12/15/2006 Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 additional material has been added, because they continue to have access to the Website. I see that in her declaration Ms. Nelson says that on September 6, 2006, I told her that the Website was not complete and that quotes were still being integrated. While coding was still occurring on the Website to place the material in logically accessible places and correct typos, it is important to note that no material beyond what was provided to the Estate on August 24, 2006 was ever added to the Website. And the final coding of that information on the Website was completed by around midSeptember. A true and correct print out of the Website as it appeared in September 2006 and as it has continuously appeared since then is attached as Exhibit B to this declaration. The Website is complete and will not change. 7. In September and October 2006 counsel for the parties engaged in settlement discussions. It soon became apparent, however, that a mutually acceptable resolution of the dispute was not possible because the Estate continued to demand the removal of particular material to which it objected. Some of the material to which the Estate objected appeared in the Website as it existed in 2005, and some of the material to which the Estate objected appeared in the portions added to the Website in the summer of 2006. 8. On October 25, 2006, counsel for Shloss filed an Amended Complaint that reflected the changes to the Website made in the summer of 2006. A true and correct copy of Plaintiff Carol Shloss's Amended Complaint [Docket No. 14] is attached to this declaration as Exhibit C. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct, and that this Declaration was executed on December 15, 2006 at Stanford, California. /s/ _____________ DAVID S. OLSON DECLARATION OF DAVID OLSON -2-

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