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Judge Petitioned To Unseal SCO-IBM Court Records

Posted by timothy on from the whatcha-eatin'-under-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Groklaw is reporting that Maureen O'Gara has applied to the judge to open all and any filings or transcipts that till now have been sealed by the Utah district court hearing the SCO Group's $5 billion suit against IBM. Groklaw's Pamela Jones notes that 'O'Gara believes the public can't understand the case, because of the sealing' and some of the Groklaw.net members seem to agree that, that since in the U.S. any citizen has a right to review court records in order to monitor the performance of a judge, that O'Gara's 'motion to intervene' will most likely succeed." An anonymous reader writes that Jones last night said of the request "that she is 'of two minds' about the filing: 'I'm crazy wild to read everything. But on the other hand, the court and the parties wouldn't seal things without a reason that seems good to them. I believe in privacy, personally, and I don't think the public has a "right" to know everything.' The legal filing to unseal everything has not yet become available via Pacer."

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Vengie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sigh. I only came here because Groklaw was all slow. I know why now. *grumble*

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    1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by kaustik · · Score: 5, Funny

      How is it that you managed to be the first post AFTER browsing the linked site, supposedly noticing a slowdown, browsing to slashdot "coincidentally" seeing this link....
      Hmmm....
      Is this like how old people can feel the rain in their bones? Can you feel a slashdotting?

  2. Extract of transcript by oexeo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's an extract:

    SCO: I present to the court exhibit A.
    Judge: What is it?
    SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an *EVIL* penguin. Look at it's eyes, look at his eyes! the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I'm Evil", look at the way he waddles along in his "oh so innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us, oh no, he doesn't fool SCO ...
    Judge: Get the hell of my court!

  3. I know why it's sealed by kevinx · · Score: 5, Funny

    unix is made out of PEOPLE... PEOPLE!!

  4. WARNING: Please read revision instead by oexeo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's an extract:

    SCO: I present to the court exhibit A.
    Judge: What is it?
    SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an *EVIL* penguin. Look at it's eyes, look at his eyes! the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I am a evil penguin", look at the way he waddles along in his "innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us, OH NO! he doesn't fool SCO ...
    Judge: Get the hell out of my court!

    1. Re:WARNING: Please read revision instead by dont_think_twice · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wow, you posted the same thing twice, and got +5 for both of them. Let me try ...

    2. Re:WARNING: Please read revision instead by dont_think_twice · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wow, you posted the same thing twice, and got +5 for both of them. Okay, here goes nothing...