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Hearing on SCO's Motion to Amend Complaint in AutoZone: Aug. 24

By Pamela Jones et al.

Judge Robert C. Jones has set a date for oral argument on SCO's recent Motion to Amend/Correct Complaint in the AutoZone case, and he has done so prior to AutoZone having time to file a response. The date is set for August 24 in Las Vegas at 9 AM. I surely hope some of you can attend. Here's the docket entry:

07/06/2009 - 100 - NOTICE of Hearing on 99 MOTION to Amend/Correct Complaint re 1 Complaint : Oral argument is scheduled for Monday, 8/24/2009, at 09:00 AM in LV Courtroom 7D before Judge Robert C. Jones. (no image attached)(KXG) (Entered: 07/06/2009)

What does it mean? We can only guess. One thing it might mean is that he's not inclined to rule in SCO's favor. There is some foundation for that guess, which I'll show you, but it's only a guess. If the fix were in, he'd do the same thing, after all. But at the October 30th status conference, he gave us a clue as to his thinking, and if we put that together with something he said at a hearing in 2004, when the case was young, I think it makes it possible to make an educated guess.

Full post as published by Groklaw on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).