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Trial in SCO v. Novell Now Scheduled for 15 Days Beginning March 8 - Correction

By Pamela Jones et al.

The trial schedule for SCO v. Novell in Utah has been altered. It was set as a 3-week trial; now it's set for 15 days:

01/06/2010 - 613 - AMENDED SCHEDULING ORDER: Final Pretrial Conference set for 2/25/2010 02:00 PM in Room 142 before Judge Ted Stewart. 15 day Jury Trial set for 3/8/2010 08:30 AM in Room 142 before Judge Ted Stewart. Signed by Judge Ted Stewart on 01/06/2010. (asp) (Entered: 01/06/2010)

Correction: I'm the idiot. Fifteen days is a 3-week trial. So I need to correct, but I simply don't see what has been amended. All I can think of is there may be a change in dates leading up to the trial, but we don't have an earlier schedule.

Here's the article with reports from the status hearing where the original schedule was set. Yes, SCO wanted 2 to 2 1/2 weeks and Novell said 2 1/2 to 3, if I mash together the conflicting reports. I notice that the days are not full days. It's 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. I think we may also assume that Judge Stewart isn't thinking of recusing himself, at least at this point.

In any case, we need to begin thinking about covering that many days of a trial. The cost for transcripts for something like this is way beyond our capabilities. So I'm asking the parties if they would please consider providing a copy of their transcripts when they order them? This is an historic case, one that will go down in history, I'm sure, no matter how it ends. So please would you consider the children, so to speak, the coming generations who will want to study and learn about this litigation?

And if anyone knows anyone who can take notes and will volunteer to attend a day or two or all of it, this is the moment for us to start to get prepared.

Full post as published by Groklaw on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).