joegratz.net

Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit granted rehearing en banc in the Roommates.com case, which I expressed my concerns about here. This means that the existing panel opinion was withdrawn by the court, and is no longer usable as precedent. A 15-judge panel will now hear and decide the case as if the panel opinion had never existed.

This is great news for the Internet, and might even be good news for the fictional “harrassthem.com” hypothesized in Judge Kozinski’s panel opinion. It is, however, definitely bad news for the real harrassthem.com (”This hypothetical website brought to you by joegratz.net,”) since that example is unlikely to appear in the court’s en banc decision.