 Roberts accepted a position at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as publication director.Ampersand sued the weekly "Santa Barbara Independent" in federal court on October 26, 2006, claiming that the posting of an unpublished draft article by a recently fired "News-Press" staffer constituted copyright infringement.Ampersand also alleged misappropriation of its trade secrets by acquiring and publishing the draft and by acquiring another draft "News-Press" article relating to the paper's arbitration proceeding against a former editor.