Below is a list of documents, in PDF format, that the Guardian obtained reutf8g to the Reilly case:
November 2006 memo from Reilly’s attorneys supporting motion for temporary restraining order against newspaper defendants. Originally filed under seal, this document contains a litany of internal memos and e-mails outlining distribution and advertising collaborations MediaNews and Hearst were discussing early last year. Famous April 26 letter appears on page six of this PDF, but plenty of other remarkable material is contained in this document as well.
November 2006 memo from Reilly’s attorneys supporting motion for temporary restraining order. Originally filed under seal.
November 2006 order from judge Illston granting Reilly’s request for a temporary restraining order related specifically to agreements between Hearst and MediaNews mentioned in the April 26 letter. On page 11, Illston notes that “increased efficiencies do not necessarily justify otherwise anti-competitive behavior.”
December 2006 memo from Reilly’s attorneys supporting motion for preliminary injunction. Originally filed under seal, this document showed that Hearst had once considered investing as much as a half-billion dollars in MediaNews stock. The temporary restraining order from November merely blocked the defendants from negotiating certain collaborations until Illston could decide whether to extend the ban until the time trial was scheduled, April 30, 2007, which Reilly’s attorneys succeeded in convincing her to do.
December 2006 memo from Reilly’s attorneys supporting motion for preliminary injunction. Originally filed under seal.
December 2006 memo from Reilly’s attorneys supporting motion for preliminary injunction. Originally filed under seal, this document contains the detailed September 2006 deposition of Hearst executive James M. Asher taken by the U.S. Justice Department during their probe of last summer’s major Bay Area newspaper transactions. The interview shows how Hearst had once breifly discussed selling the San Francisco Chronicle to MediaNews, and how for 10 years the two companies were pondering some sort of major investment opportunity.
December 2006 order from Illston granting Reilly’s request for a preliminary injunction against the newspaper defendants.
December 2006 motion by the Guardian and Media Alliance to intervene and unseal documents in Reailly’s suit against the newspapers.
April 2007 declaration from MediaNews president Joseph J. Lodovic IV asking Illston to keep under seal certain records tied to the defendants’ motion for summary judgment.
April 2007 motion from Gannet Co. also asking that records from the motion for summary judment remain sealed.
April 2007 proposed order from Gannet Co. and Stephens Group asking that certain financial documents in case be kept under seal.
April 2007 filing from MediaNews asking that records tied to the motion for summary judgment remain sealed.
April 2007 order denying the newspaper defendants’ motion for summary judgment and disputing their claim that Reilly had no standing to sue on antitrust grounds as a consumer.
April 2007 letter from attorneys of Media Alliance and the Guardian following up with Illston on open-records intervention.
April 2007 order from Illston proclaiming that key documents submitted as evidence at trial would largely be open to the public.