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Judge Illston Alters Some of Her Order; Issues Referred to Magistrate - Updated

By Pamela Jones et al.

The hearing in Sony Computer Entertainment America v. Hotz was held today, and Wired's David Kravetz reports the judge, the Hon. Susan Illston, acknowledged that some details of the case got away from her a bit, and she apologized. She's made some changes to her earlier orders.

Specifically, she realizes that there's no way to cleanse the Internet, so that part of her order is changed. He does still have to let Sony hunt through his computers, but she will put some limitations in place to make sure that's all they do.

The minutes from today's hearing are now posted, and the rest of the news is that it's been referred to the magistrate judge for further discovery and "to define the terms of the injunction". Hotz evidently crossed over that bar successfully too, enough to persuade the judge that there was a need to consider if her original order was too broad and too vague, his contention regarding the injunction.

Full post as published by Groklaw on February 10, 2011 (boomark / email).