Portions of SCO's Expert Reports Stricken

rm69990 writes "A day after Judge Dale Kimball reaffirmed Judge Wells' order tossing most of SCO's case, Judge Wells has stricken large portions of SCO's expert reports, stating that SCO was trying to do an end-run around IBM. As IBM put it in its motion papers, SCO will not be allowed to 'litigate by ambush.' This motion was regarding SCO's expert reports, where SCO attempted to insert new evidence after discovery had ended via their expert reports. Wells' ruled directly from the bench, and finished by telling SCO to 'take it up with Judge Kimball' if they had a problem. This really hasn't been a good week for SCO."

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Win Or Lose...

[Greyfox]

The lawyers in this case will make more money than most of us will see during the course of our entire careers.

Of course, IBM isn't going to just stand there after letting SCO dig a hole for the past 3 years either. They're going to open a can of whoop ass and in a matter of days from the time they do it I'm sure there will be plenty of whoop ass to go around. I don't think they'll be satisfied simply to destroy SCO -- I think they're going to go out of their way to see to it that lives are destroyed. I wouldn't be surprised if people end up in jail over this case. It might be that SCO's legal team will be able to simply stand around and watch the carnage. Perhaps IBM won't go after them personally -- after all, all they really did was represent SCO's dubious case as well as they could. I'm not sure how they'll ever find work again after this farce of a case, but then again they do seem to be able to have miserable failure after miserable failure and people still want to hire them.

Anyway, it seems like this are starting to hop in this case and it sounds an awful lot like IBM cracking the top on that can of whoop ass. I have a feeling they'll spread it around quickly once the ball starts rolling.