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Novell Anticipates Objections to SCO's Experts' Testimonies - The TK-7 Case

By Pamela Jones et al.

Novell anticipates certain questions SCO is likely to ask two of its experts, and rather than having long sidebars, which the judge has already said he doesn't like, they have filed objections they figure they'll be raising, along with a new case that supports their position, TK-7 Corp. v. Estate of Barbouti. This way things can be hashed out in advance.

Novell has found this 10th Circuit case, TK-7, that indicates that Dr. Gary Pisano ought not to be allowed to use the Yankee Group study's numbers as the basis for his opinions, since he didn't look into the methodology. And yes, on the basis of this new case, Novell respectfully says that Judge Ted Stewart's denial of Novell's earlier Daubert motion was in error:

The Yankee Group survey is hearsay, and SCO should not be permitted to dress it up and introduce it as Dr. Pisano's unexamined and untestable opinion.

They have, in short, painted the judge into a corner, and he will either have to follow case law, or he'll have to find a newer case that contradicts the one Novell has found. Judges are supposed to be bound by case law, with a bit of wiggle room. The judge denied the motion without the benefit of this case, which Novell says, "requires a different result." This case is dynamite. Whoever found it fell asleep grinning.

Full post as published by Groklaw on March 17, 2010 (boomark / email).