 In New York Times Co. v. Tasini ( 1997 ) , freelance journalists sued the New York Times Company for copyright infringement for the New York Times ' inclusion in an electronic archival database ( LexisNexis ) of the work of freelancers it had published . Sotomayor ruled that the publisher had the right to license the freelancers ' work . This decision was reversed on appeal , and the Supreme Court upheld the reversal ; two dissenters ( John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer ) took Sotomayor 's position . 
