Groklaw: Kimball Rules: SCO's Objections Denied! Wells's Order Affirmed--Novell Goes 1st

"What does it mean? It means SCO is toast. Wells' order threw out most of SCO's evidence. They were too tricky by half (as Wells put it: 'In the view of the court it is almost like SCO sought to hide its case until the ninth inning in hopes of gaining an unfair advantage despite being repeatedly told to put 'all evidence... on the table''), they got caught, and now they have been punished. And so, what they face at trial is awful to contemplate, if you are a friend of SCO's. Which I'm not.

"What's worse for SCO is, Kimball did a de novo review, out of an 'abundance of caution,' so they can't even appeal that issue..."

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