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SCO Objects to Some Claims, Including Snow Christensen's

By Pamela Jones et al.

SCO has filed its First (Non-Substantive) Omnibus Objection to Claims [PDF], which I gather is where a company tries to shuck off any claims they think they can. And the omnibus hearing scheduled for October 15, 2008 has been cancelled. Also Tanner has filed its 12th bill in the bankruptcy. Here's the relief SCO asks for in its Omnibus Objection to Claims:

7. By this First Omnibus Claims Objection, the Debtors seek entry of an order pursuant to section 502(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and 3007 of the Bankruptcy Rules disallowing and expunging the Disputed Claims listed on Exhibits "A" through "D" to the proposed First Omnibus Claims Order because such claims are claims asserting ownership of stock (Exhibit A), late filed claims (Exhibit B), for which the Debtors have no liability (Exhibit C), or claims with insufficient documentation (Exhibit D).

They want the claims "disallowed and expunged". One of the claims is one from Snow Christensen & Martineau for $100,000. That's the law firm that represented Caldera in the Caldera v. Microsoft case, if you recall, when Ryan Tibbitts was with Snow Christensen, before he joined SCO as general counsel. Nice touch. It's the same firm that Microsoft is now trying to subpoena in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust litigation. It seems never to pay off, doing business with SCO, does it? They list the same claim from the firm on both Exhibit A, a list of "Disputed Claims which improperly assert claims of ownership of stock", and on Exhibit C, which is the list that purports to be claims that lack a basis in SCO's books and records. So if they can't get it expunged one way, they'll try the other. Maybe SCM will start *really* digging in those 158 boxes now.

Full post as published by Groklaw on October 09, 2008 (boomark / email).