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Judge Gross Wakes Up: Order Re July 27th Hearing

By Pamela Jones et al.

Judge Kevin Gross, the judge handling the SCO bankruptcy, appears to have awakened with a start. He says IBM has informed him of issues related to the July 27th hearing on SCO's proposed sale of assets to unXis. I'll say.

He has issued an order that there will be a teleconference on July 22 with him and the parties, in advance of the hearing on the 27th, and he wants the discovery IBM has asked for produced by SCO prior to that teleconference. He orders the deposition of Ryan Tibbits and William Broderick on the 23rd or they will not be allowed to testify on the 27th. And most significantly, he says he will not consider any testimony or documents on the alleged strength of SCO's litigation against IBM, Novell, Red Hat or AutoZone. Period. It's not his ball of wax.

The cluetrain seems to have arrived at the station. I surely hope, though, that some of you can attend that hearing, so we'll know in a timely way what happens. It will be like a mini-trial. With the new court rules holding back transcripts until weeks later, it's our only source of immediate information.

Full post as published by Groklaw on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).