AMD Subpoenas to Stop Document Destruction

cyberfunk2 writes "It appears that a court has granted AMD a "no-shred" request with respect to documents related to its' charges of Intel anticompetitive behavior. 9 of the 32 companies subpoenaed so far have said they will adhere to the order. The 9 are Acer, Gateway, Lenovo, NEC, Rackable Systems, Sony, Sun, Tech Data and Circuit City. Others have promised to respond soon."

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I Would Assume Many Companies...

[geoffrobinson]

if Intel is doing what AMD alledges, I would assume many third-party companies resent what Intel is doing. Shred? They may secretly help AMD behind the scenes for all we know.

They may not want to be held hostage.

Re:How Much Paperwork Can a Lawyer Process?

[AvitarX]

A good Intel lawyer will make sure that it can't happen like that though.

They will say everythign has to be within the time frame of the fileing date backwards by the statatory limitation on whatever they are suing for (allowing for a little more time soley to establish background).

Of course AMDs lawyers will ask open ended questions to the defense hoping that someone slips up and opens the window for a line of questions about the continuing practice.

As to the Grandparents subject, I don't know for sure how much specific lawyers do, but a case I worked where about 13,000 pages were admitted into evidence the lawyers could see something (or hear it in court) and pretty much name a document number that was relevent (there were 1,300+ documents each 10 or so pages).

In another case with far less admitted into evidence, but with 40 cases of documents produced the expert witness I met had read all 40 cases himself and then re-read about half of it that he deamed sort of relavent and then focused on more.

The first case was quite large (one of the richest 20 people on the planet was there)

The other was a realitivly small case that had a large vengance factor (less then $5,000,000).

So lawyers can handle a lot of paper.