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SCO v. Novell - The March 25, 2010 Jury Instructions Conference Now Unsealed

By Pamela Jones et al.

This is fun. The court has now unsealed the jury instruction conference [PDF] between the parties in SCO v. Novell and the presiding judge, the Hon. Ted Stewart. This took place on March 25, 2010, but it was under seal at first, and what's fun about it is that the jury isn't listening, so they tell each other rather more plainly what they really think. They are trying to agree on what the jury should be instructed on various legal issues, so the jury knows how to weigh evidence and such.

For example, beginning on page 22, Morrison & Foerster's Michael A. Jacobs, for Novell, tells us what he thinks of SCO's story, here represented by Boies Schiller's Ted Normand, about rogue lawyers writing the APA differently than they were supposed to. He calls it a "bizarre" legal theory.

Full post as published by Groklaw on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).