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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay - PDF and text
Thursday, September 02 2004 @ 11:39 PM EDT

AutoZone has filed an Emergency Motion to Stay, asking the judge "to stay all proceedings related to the issue of preliminary injunctive relief". Why? They remind the judge that his Order indicated and his words at the hearing clearly stated that SCO was entitled to do discovery only if it was entitled to apply for a preliminary injunction. [Groklaw's complete transcript of the hearing is here. SCO's Exhibit is a relevant section only. Note it may take a while for all the links to resolve properly.]

Instead, SCO filed a Statement of Basis for Claim for Preliminary Injunctive Relief and Nature of Relief in which they say that they aren't sure if they are entitled to such relief, and they'd like to do discovery to find out. That, AutoZone points out, is what you call a fishing expedition, so they ask the judge for a stay of all action in the case until after the IBM, Novell and Red Hat cases are resolved.

SCO told this judge in their complaint that AutoZone was damaging them by its internal use, distribution, and copying of the Linux operating system, which SCO alleged infringes SCO's copyrights that SCO purports to own in the UNIX operating system:

"24. . . . Defendant’s conduct has caused, and if not enjoined, will continue to cause, irreparable harm to SCO."

"Irreparable harm", they claimed, and on that basis, the judge gave them an opportunity to do discovery, predicate to a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent that "harm", but he added this:

"If you don't have the right to a preliminary injunction, you shouldn't proceed with discovery at all."

There are elements you must satisfy to get a preliminary injunction, which AutoZone calls, in footnote 2, "the onerous elements necessary to be entitled to such relief." The judge in the Napster case explained what those elements are:

"To prevail on a motion for preliminary injunction--and this is going to take a while because I'm going to go through the elements and the claims and defenses--but to prevail on a motion for a preliminary injunction, plaintiffs must demonstrate a combination of probable success on the merits--and possibility of irreparable harm or on the continuum scale of serious legal questions that are raised--and a balance of hardships tipping in the plaintiffs' favor."

SCO claims that the judge gave it the right to do discovery in order to determine whether or not it can file for a preliminary injunction. "SCO is informed and believes that AutoZone may have infringed SCO's copyrights. . . " SCO's statement says.

*May* have? Now, that's a very different song from the aria they sang in their complaint. Their basis for belief is that based on some employees' "knowledge of the AutoZone System, SCO is informed and believes that AutoZone 'copied' certain copyrighted material . . . including . . . SCO's static shared libraries during its transition to Linux." They say that to run legacy UNIX applications from one version of OpenServer on Linux, you'd probably use those libraries. "SCO believes it is reasonably likely that AutoZone copied SCO's copyrighted material during the migration process. . . "

*Reasonably likely*? That's saying you suspect but have no real knowledge. So, they brought another lawsuit with no apparent facts? And what relief can they possibly ask for that a preliminary injunction could provide? AutoZone is enjoined not to migrate to Linux ever again? Not to use Linux for the duration of the trial? Hand over their computers? Be forbidden to boot up their computers? Where is the ongoing, daily damage that SCO needs to be protected from? How can they demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits, for that matter? No wonder they aren't so sure they will file a motion for a prelim. This is about as silly as DaimlerChrysler being sued when it hadn't used SCO's software for nearly a decade.

SCO is in an odd spot now, if the judge takes a moment from his busy schedule to compare what SCO says here with what it said in its complaint. Their statement is saying that when they wrote in their complaint that they were being damaged, they didn't actually know if they were or not. They had no idea if they were entitled to a preliminary injunction, and they still don't know. AutoZone's lawyer tried to tell this judge that SCO had no proof:

Stewart: Your honor, could I be heard on the point about discovery and a preliminary injunction?

Judge Jones: Please.

Stewart: Couple of points. First, SCO's never *asked* for a preliminary injunction in any case.

Judge Jones: Ah.

Stewart: Until today, they had never identified in this case anything that they allege that AutoZone has done that somebody else didn't do. And they don't even know if in fact AutoZone did it. They don't have any evidence to point to to that. From what I've heard they don't even have good-faith information and belief on which to base that claim. We're about ready to engage on a fishing expedition. And it is hard to say how broad that's going to be. It presumably could end up encompassing everything that's also at issue in Red Hat and IBM and Novell.

Did AutoZone's attorney call it right or not? Next time there is a dispute, which side do you think the judge will now be more likely to believe? And is there any way the judge can miss the point now? (Heaven only knows we need more judges with a technical clue. I understand now why IBM's attorney, David Marriott, begins almost every argument by explaining what an operating system is.) Anything is possible, I suppose. But the whole world is watching.

And that, I now believe, is exactly what SCO planned and wanted. They wanted to be public bullies, to terrify companies into taking a license. I guess they thought after a few examples of terrorizing their victims by dragging them through a court process that was so ridiculous no one could feel their chances were any better than the victim's, everyone would line up like docile little lambs.

They have a problem, though. They are like the Assyrians in Bible times. They were known for vicious and sadistic treatment of their vanquished enemies. Archeologists have found drawings depicting blinded captured unfortunates with hooks through their lips or noses or jaws, being led around like tortured dogs, while the Assyrians partied and celebrated their victory. They made one miscalculation however, and so has SCO. Because of their reputation, no one would ever voluntarily surrender to the Assyrians, knowing how they would be treated. I think SCO made a similar mistake in seeking "the most hated company" status. The whole world eventually decided they'd be better off fighting to the death, so to speak. No white flags are waving now, which is why the SCOsource program is light-headed and nearly fainting dead away, like a delicate Southern damsel in a too-tight corset.

****************************

James J. Pisanelli, Esq.
Nevada Bar No. 4027
SCHRECK BRIGNONE
[address, phone]

Michael P. Kenny, Esq.
James A. Harvey, Esq.
David J. Stewart, Esq.
Christopher A. Riley, Esq.
Douglas L. Bridges, Esq.
ALSTON & BIRD LLP
[address, phone]

Attorneys for Defendant AutoZone, Inc.

_________________________

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEVADA

_________________________

THE SCO GROUP, INC.,
a Delaware Corporation,

Plaintiff,    

  v.    

  AUTOZONE, INC.,                     
a Nevada Corporation,

Defendant.

________________________________________

Civil Action File No.
  CV-S-04-0237-RCJ-LRL

____________________________________

DEFENDANT AUTOZONE, INC.'S EMERGENCY MOTION TO STAY

Defendant AutoZone, Inc. ("AutoZone") moves the Court for an order staying all remaining proceedings related to the issue of preliminary injunctive relief.

The grounds in support of AutoZone's Motion are set forth in detail in AutoZone's Memorandum of Law filed concurrently herewith.

Respectfully submitted, this 1st day of September, 2004.

____[signature]____
James J. Pisanelli, Esq.
SCHRECK BRIGNONE
[address]

Michael P. Kenny, Esq.
James A. Harvey, Esq.
David J. Stewart, Esq.
Christopher A. Riley, Esq.
Douglas L. Bridges, Esq.
ALSTON & BIRD LLP
[address, phone]

Attorneys for Defendant AutoZone, Inc.


DEFENDANT AUTOZONE, INC.'S MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF ITS EMERGENCY MOTION TO STAY

Defendant AutoZone, Inc. ("AutoZone") moves the Court for an order staying all remaining proceedings related to the issue of preliminary injunctive relief.

INTRODUCTION

The Court has stayed all all action in this case with the exception that the Court has authorized Plaintiff The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") to conduct limited expedited discovery in advance of the filing of a motion for preliminary injunction on SCO's claims that AutoZone infringed SCO's copyrights when AutoZone migrated from UNIX to Linux. Nevertheless, the Court has made clear to SCO that it can only pursue such discovery if it has a right to preliminary injunctive relief and if it intends to file a motion to pursue such relief.

SCO has recently stated in writing that it does not know whether it is entitled to a preliminary injunction but that it intends to pursue expedited discovery nonetheless in order to determine whether it has grounds to file such a motion. SCO's intent to pursue discovery at this time is therefore nothing more than a fishing expedition that is directly contrary to the Court's ruling, and AutoZone requests that all further action in this case be stayed pending resolution of the previously filed IBM, Novell and Red Hat cases.

STATEMENT OF FACTS

On March 3, 2004, SCO filed its Complaint alleging one cause of action for copyright infringement and broadly asserting that AutoZone's internal use, distribution, and copying of the Linux operating system infringes copyrights that SCO purports to own in the UNIX operating system. See generally Complaint. SCO did not state in its Complaint that it is entitled to, or that it intends to move for, preliminary injunctive relief on any of its claims.

On April 23, 2004, AutoZone filed two motions: (a) a Motion to Stay or, in the Alternative, for More Definite Statement, and (b) a Motion to Transfer Venue. The Court heard oral argument on AutoZone's motions on July 12, 2004.

At the July 12 hearing, the Court granted AutoZone's Motion to Stay as it relates to the code within Linux itself, but the Court noted SCO's allegations that AutoZone had independently infringed code in UNIX when AutoZone migrated from UNIX to Linux. 1 Accordingly, the Court ruled that SCO could conduct limited discovery on "facts predicate to [a motion for] preliminary injunction" on the alleged migration infringements. See July 12, 2004 Hearing Transcript ("Hearing Transcript"), attached hereto as Exhibit A, 25:10. Importantly, however, the Court admonished SCO: "[i]f you don't have the right to a preliminary injunction, you shouldn't proceed with discovery at all." Hearing Transcript, 24:22-23 (emphasis added). The Court further instructed SCO: "you shouldn't go on a free-ranging discovery course preparatory to a trial." Hearing Transcript, 25:10-12. Therefore, the Court authorized SCO to conduct limited discovery only if SCO had a right to preliminary injunctive relief and it intended to pursue such relief.

The Court instructed AutoZone to confer with SCO and submit a proposed order on the motions. The parties conferred in good faith but were unable to reach agreement on several important issues. As a result, the parties agreed to submit separate orders to the Court. AutoZone submitted its proposed order on July 30, 2004. See Letter from David J. Stewart to Hon. Robert C. Jones, dated July 30, 2004. SCO did not submit an order. On August 6, 2004, the Court entered an order on AutoZone's motions in substantially the same form as AutoZone had proposed. See Order, attached hereto as Exhibit B.

The Order required SCO to "serve on AutoZone a statement of the basis for its claim for preliminary injunctive relief and the nature of the relief it seeks on those claims" within fifteen (15) days from the date of the Order, or Monday, August 23, 2004. See Order, ¶2. On August 23rd, counsel for SCO contacted counsel for AutoZone and requested an extension until Friday, August 27th to serve the required statement. AutoZone agreed to the requested extension. On Friday, August 27th, counsel for SCO again contacted counsel for AutoZone and requested a second extension until Monday, August 30th to file the required statement. Again, AutoZone agreed to the requested extension.

On August 30th, SCO served AutoZone with SCO's Statement of Basis for Claim for Preliminary Injunctive Relief and Nature of Relief ("Injunctive Relief Statement"), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit C. In its Injunctive Relief Statement, SCO states that "[t]he Court has permitted SCO to conduct limited expedited discovery on [AutoZone's migration from a Unix Operating System to a Linux Operating System] in order to determine whether or not to file a motion for preliminary injunctive relief." See SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement, pp. 1-2 (emphasis added). SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement further states that SCO "intends to conduct limited discovery into the above issues in order to determine whether or not, under the circumstances, an application for a Preliminary Injunction is warranted." See SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement, p. 4 (emphasis added). SCO therefore seeks to conduct discovery to determine whether or not it has a right to a preliminary injunction, notwithstanding the Court's ruling that the right to a preliminary injunction is prerequisite to conducting discovery. See Hearing Transcript, 24:22-23. 2

ARGUMENT AND CITATION OF AUTHORITIES

This Court possesses the inherent discretion to stay these proceedings. Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 706 (1997) ("The District Court has broad discretion to stay proceedings as an incident to its power to control its own docket.") As this Court has previously explained, "[e]very court has the inherent power to stay causes on its docket with a view to avoiding [the] . . . waste of time and effort by itself, the litigants and counsel." Stern v. United States, 563 F. Supp. 484, 489 (D. Nev. 1983).

Here, the Court should stay the remaining proceedings related to the issue of preliminary injunctive relief because, contrary to the Court's directive, SCO has no idea at this time whether it is entitled to a preliminary injunction or whether it even intends to move for such relief. Instead, SCO has announced through its Injunctive Relief Statement that it intends to use the expedited discovery period for what amounts to a fishing expedition to determine whether or not it has any legitimate basis to file a motion for preliminary injunction on any issue. Such a fishing expedition violates the Court's ruling, and will be a waste of time, effort and money by the Court, the litigants, and third party witnesses.

SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement and its plan to conduct discovery is based entirely on SCO's erroneous statement that:

The Court has permitted SCO to conduct limited discovery on [AutoZone's migration from a Unix Operating System to a Linux Operating System] in order to determine whether or not to file a motion for preliminary injunctive relief.

SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement, pp. 1-2 (emphasis added). The Hearing Transcript clearly demonstrates that the Court never authorized SCO to conduct discovery "to determine whether or not" to file a motion for preliminary injunction. To the contrary, the Court clearly stated: "[i]f you [SCO] don't have the right to a preliminary injunction, you shouldn't proceed with discovery at all." Hearing Transcript, 24:22-23 (emphasis added). 3 SCO's intent to pursue expedited discovery is therefore not authorized by this Court, and AutoZone respectfully requests that all further proceedings in this case be stayed pending resolution of the previously filed IBM, Red Hat and Novell cases.

This first day of September, 2004.

____[signature]______
James J. Pisanelli, Esq.
SCHRECK BRIGNONE
[address, phone]

and

Michael P. Kenny, Esq.
James A. Harvey, Esq.
David J. Stewart, Esq.
Christopher A. Riley, Esq.
Douglas L. Bridges, Esq.
ALSTON & BIRD LLP
[address, phone]

Attorneys for Defendant AutoZone, Inc.


1 The Court stated at the July 12 hearing: "The only reason for doing that is because [SCO] raised that issue in their responses that they would be harmed if the Court simply held off and did not let them proceed here one way or the other." Hearing Transcript, 24:11-14.

2 SCO states in its Injunctive Relief Statement that it "believes that it is reasonably likely that AutoZone copied SCO's copyrighted material during the migration process. . .;" however, this statement does not amount to a statement by SCO that it has the right to a preliminary injunction and can satisfy the onerous elements necessary to be entitled to such relief. See SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement, p. 2.

3 SCO's deliberate waffling "whether or not to" language in its Injunctive Relief Statement is not surprising. Given that SCO did not seek a preliminary injunction when it originally filed its Complaint, SCO now wants to cover itself in the event that SCO elects not to file a motion for preliminary injunction. SCO can then point to the language in its Injunctive Relief Statement after it subjects AutoZone to expedited discovery and does not file a motion, and explain to the Court that it subsequently learned that it did not have grounds for preliminary injunctive relief, notwithstanding that such grounds were a prerequisite to conducting discovery in the first place.


CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that I have this day served a copy of the within and foregoing DEFENDANT AUTOZONE, INC.'S MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF ITS EMERGENCY MOTION TO STAY upon all counsel of record addressed as follows:

Stanley W. Parry, Esq.
Glenn M. Machado, Esq.
CURRAN & PARRY
[address]
(Via Hand-Delivery)

David S. Stone, Esq.
Robert A. Magnanini, Esq.
BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP
[address]
(Via Facsimile and United States Mail )

Stephen N. Zack, Esq.
Mark J. Heise, Esq.
BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER, LLP
[address]
(Via Facsimile and United States Mail )

This 1st day of September, 2004

_______[signature]_________
An employee of Schreck Brignone


  


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Corrections
Authored by: ankylosaurus on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:16 AM EDT


---
The Dinosaur with a Club at the End of its Tail

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OT
Authored by: ankylosaurus on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:17 AM EDT
First two posts? Wow!

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The Dinosaur with a Club at the End of its Tail

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SCO fails IQ test
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:25 AM EDT
This is substantially similar to a post I made at the end of the last story,
edited to avoid repeating PJ's story
<BR><BR>
At the time of the hearing. I opined this was an
intelligence test for SCO.

Well, IMHO, they just failed it.

If SCO had been smart, they would have stuck rigorously to
the order (1. Say
they were seeking a preliminary injunction, and 2, The
preliminary injunction
was about OpenServer libraries), and asked for a
preliminary injunction on this
basis. In this event, I couldn't see the PI being denied,
because AZ would say
they weren't using these libaries anyway, they wouldn't be
harmed by the PI, and
the PI would be granted. In practical terms such a PI might
have no effect, but
it would have been a PR win for SCO.

SCO being, well SCO, seem to have gone for discovery anyway
in their usual hyper
aggressive fashion, and bended what they heard from the
judge to try to make it mean something different (perhaps the version they heard
is completely different from what's in the transcript)

- SCO (1) are not sure whether or not they are entitled to,
or (2) will seek a
PI (despite the court's order that they shouldn't conduct
any discovery unless
they were entitled to and would seek one - see court
transcript and signed order
from the judge)

- SCO (3) are not sure what the exact basis of the PI might
be (compare judge's
order)

Quatermass
IANAL IMHO etc

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Pulling out all the stops?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:33 AM EDT
This really makes them look desperate. They are pulling out all the stops,
going for any little angle, twisting around the justice system, trying to weasel
into any little crevice they can.

These people are like legal terrorists; you have to defeat them soundly and show
no mercy whatsoever.

It is good SCO attacked big corporations, because if they had started going
through small ones they could have destroyed dozens and left thousands
unemployed before hitting one big enough to have the resources to defend
itself.



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Darl's view of discovery
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:33 AM EDT
Remember these quotes and also at http://lwn.net/Articles/38074/

"We get to really shake things up and get in to find out what really is going on over there,"

"The reality is that we are going into discovery right now and that might be the vehicle to be able to investigate what we need there anyway."

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Does SCO have no shame?
Authored by: Philip Stephens on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:45 AM EDT
SCO's tendancy to flaunt or reinterpret court orders to their liking is
mind-boggling. Did they really think that the judge would forget what he'd said
during the oral arguments?

I'm sorry, but I can no longer give SCO and their lawyers the benefit of the
doubt: they simply cannot be this stupid or incompetent. The only explanation
for these ridiculous motions is arrogance, and a willingness to try and game the
system.

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay
Authored by: lazy on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:54 AM EDT
I think the judge was very disconnected with this case
when he ruled that SCO could do limited discovery if they
actually had the right to file for a PI. He said it almost
as if he was covering himself for other awkward things he said
in the hearing. Consequently I predict he will take advantage
of the stupidity in SCO's request and grant the stay.

---
vote with your wallet, not with your hands.

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Did anyone notice...
Authored by: Philip Stephens on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:55 AM EDT
..that in a footnote on page 2 of SCO's "statement of basis for claim for preliminary injunctive relief and nature of relief", they once again trot out their novel theory of copyright:

The term "copying" as used herein includes verbatim copying of code or man pages, and copying where the resulting product is substantially similiar to the original considering structure, sequence and organisation, and other non-literal elements of the code.

They...just...won't...give...up!

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay
Authored by: marbux on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:06 AM EDT
Did anyone else notice that Autozone and SCO's local counsel in Las Vegas are
right next door, one in suite 1200 and the other in suite 1201 of the same
builoding?

I only noticed because I had an office in the same building (Bank of America)
for about a year while working on a major case in Las Vegas, back in the early
90s. I recall Schreck & Brignone being there at the time, don't remember the
other firm.

The Bank of America building is in downtown Vegas, only a couple of blocks from
the federal courthouse. That's an easy walk except in the most intense part of
summer, when you can burn your feet while walking, even wearing shoes.

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SCO Comedy
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:12 AM EDT

Judge: SCO, you get the AutoZone's candy if you bring back my newspaper.

SCO: OK. [Goes out]

SCO: [Returns] I'm here for my candy!

Judge: Where's the newspaper?

SCO: [Surprised] What newspaper? You never mentioned any newspaper!

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Broken Link, PJ
Authored by: Anthem on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:13 AM EDT
At least for me... following the link to the hearing gives me a 404.

Anthem

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Not pulling any punches
Authored by: whoever57 on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:17 AM EDT
Page 2 : "... nothing more than a fishing expedition .."

Footnote 3 on page 5: "SCO's deliberate waffling ..."

Perhaps the judge will get clued up this time?

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Why do the lawyers go along with this?
Authored by: AG on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:21 AM EDT
SCO has something like 6 law firms working for it. Each and every one of them is acting totally incompetent. The behavior of SCO's legal team in Las Vegas is close to contempt of court (maybe not in the punishable sense, but certainly in the eyes of the judge). Why would a law firm agree to do this? Don't these people have anything to loose? SCO will be history in a few month. The lawyers will have to work with this judge for years to come. Its not just Boies' firm that blows it every time they file a motion. All law firms associated with SCO look ridiculous if you compare them with IBM's or Novell's legal team. They file bogus motions. They try to misread orders at every corner. They tell conflicting stories to two different federal courts.

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Cadence Vs. Avanti again
Authored by: whoever57 on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:22 AM EDT
I think too much is being read into the Cadence vs. Avanti judgement that the
possiblity of money eventually does not eliminate the presumption of irreperable
harm.

In Cadence vs. Avanti, there were a couple of serious differences:
1. The copied code was also secret.
2. Avanti was using the code to compete against Cadence -- in effect, using
Cadence's own code to steal Cadence's customers and obtain revenue that Cadence
could expect to receive if it were not for Avanti selling software that used
Cadence's code.

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SCO being Lazy or?
Authored by: Golem on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:22 AM EDT
The court said they were to agree on the order and write it up. SCO apparently
didnt agree on several of the points and they agreed to write up several
orders.

SCO never submitted an order. So either they forgot or were to busy or they knew
the judge would look at both orders and decide that Autozones version was
correct.

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay - AZ-37.pdf as text.
Authored by: ankylosaurus on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:47 AM EDT
James J Pisannelli, Esq.
Nevad Bar No. 4027
[Address]

Michael P. Kenny,
Esq.
James A. Harvey, Esq.
David J. Stewart, Esq.
Christopher A. Riley,
Esq
Douglas L. Bridges, Esq.
ALSTON & BIRD LLP
[Address]

Attorneys for
Defendant AutoZone, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEVADA

THE
SCO GROUP, INC.          
a Delaware Corporation
Plaintiff,      


      Civil Action File
No.
      CV-S-04-0237-RCJ-LRL

v.                
         
                           
AUTOZONE, INC.
a Nevada
Corporation
Defendant.

DEFENDANT AUTOZONE, INC.'S EMERGENCY MOTION TO
STAY

Defendant AutoZone, Inc. ("AutoZone") moves the Court for an order staying all remaining proceedings related to the issue of preliminary injunctive relief.

The grounds in support of AutoZone's Motion are set forth in detail in AutoZone's Memorandum of Law filed concurrently herewith.

Respectfully submitted, this 1st day of September, 2004.

[Signature - James J Pisanelli, Esq.]

DEFENDANT
AUTOZONE, INC.'S MEMORANDUM OF LAW
IN SUPPORT OF ITS EMERGENCY MOTION TO
STAY

Defendant AutoZone, Inc. ("AutoZone") moves the court for an order staying all remaining proceedings related to the issue of preliminary injunctive relief.

INTRODUCTION

The Court has stayed all action in this case with the exception that the Court has authorized Plaintiff The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") to conduct limited expedited discovery in advance of the filing of a motion for preliminary injunction on SCO's claims that AutoZone infringed SCO's copyrights when AutoZone migrated from UNIX to Linux. Nevertheless, the Court has made clear to SCO that it can only pursue such discovery if it has a right to preliminary injunctive relief and if it intends to file a motion to pursue such relief.

SCO has recently stated in writing that it does not know whether it is entitled to a preliminary injunction but that it intends to pursue expedited discovery nonetheless in order to determine whether it has grounds to file such a motion. SCO's intent to pursue discovery at this time is therefore nothing more than a fishing expedition that is directly contrary to the Court's ruling, and AutoZone requests that all further action in this case be stayed pending resolution of the previously filed IBM, Novell and Red Hat cases.

STATEMENT OF FACTS

On March 3, 2004, SCO filed its Complaint alleging one cause of action for copyright infringement and broadly asserting that AucotZones's internal use, distribution, and copying of the Linux operating system infringes copyrights that SCO purports to own in the UNIX operating system. See generally Complaint. SCO did not state in its Complaint that it is entitled to, or that it inends to move for, preliminary injunctive relief on any of its claims.

On April 23, 2004, AutoZone file two motions: (a) a Motion to Stay or, in the Alternative, for More Definite Statement, and (b) a Motion to Transfer Venue. The Court heard oral argument on AuotZone's motions on July 12, 2004.

At the July 12 hearing, the Court granted AutoZone's Motion to Stay as it relates to the code within Linux itself, but the Court noted SCO's allegations that AutoZone had independently infringed code in UNIX when AutoZone migrated from UNIX to Linux[1]. Accordingly, the Court rules that SCO could conduct limited discovery on "facts predicate to [a motion for] preliminary injuntion" on the alleged migration infringements. See July 12, 2004 Hearing Transcript ("Hearing Transcript"), attached hereto as Exhibit A, 25:10. Importantly, however, the Court admonished SCO: "[i]f you don't have the right to a preliminary injunction, you shouldn't proceed with discovery at all." Hearing Transcript, 24:22-23 (emphasis added). The Court further instructed SCO: "you shouldn't go on a free-ranging discovery course preparatory to a trial." Hearing Transcript, 25:10-12. Therefore, the Court authorized SCO to conduct limited discovery only if SCO had a right to preliminary injunctive relief and it intended to pursue such relief.

The Court instructed AutoZone to confer with SCO and submit a proposed order on the motions. The parties conferred in good faith but were unable to reach agreement on several important issues. As a result, the parties agreed to submit separate orders to the Court. AutoZone submitted its proposed order on July 30,

[1] The Court stated at the July 12 hearing: "The only reason for doing that is because [SCO] raised that issue in the responses that they would be harmed if the Court simply held off and did not let them proceed here one way or the other." Hearing Transcript, 24:11-14.

2004. See Letter from David J. Stewart to Hon. Robert C. Jones, dated July 30, 2004. SCO did not submit an order. On August 5, 2004, the Court entered an Order on AutoZone's motions in substantially the same form as AutoZone had proposed. See Order, attached hereto as Exhibit B.

The Order required SCO to "serve on AutoZone a statement of the basis for its claim for preliminary injunctive relief and the nature of the relief it seeks on those claims" within fifteen (15) days from the date of the Order, or Monday, August 23, 2004. See Order, ¶ 2. On August 23rd, counsel for SCO contacted counsel for AutoZone and requested an extension until Friday, August 27th to serve the required statement. AutoZone agreed to the requested extension. On Friday, August 27th, counsel for SCO again contacted counsel for AutoZone and requested a second extension until Monday, August 30th to file the required statement. Again, AutoZone agreed to the requested extension.

On August 30th, SCO served AutoZone with SCO's Statement of Basis for Claim for Preliminary Injunctive Relief and nature of Relief ("Injunctive Relief Statement"), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit C. In its Injunctive Relief Statement, SCO states that "[t]he Court has permitted SCO to conduct limited expedited discovery on [AutoZone's migration from a Unix Operating System to a Linux Operating System] in order to determine whether or not to file a motion for prelimninary injunctive relief." See SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement, pp. 1-2 (emphasis added). SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement further states that SCO "intends to conduct limited discovery into the above issues in order to determine whether or not, under the circumstances, an application for a Preliminary Injunction is warranted." See SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement, p. 4 (emphasis added). SCO therefore seek to conduct discovery to determine whether or not it has a right to a preliminary injunction, notwithstanding the Court's ruling that the right to a preliminary injunction is prerequisite to conuction discovery. See Hearing Transcript, 24:22-23[2].

ARGUMENT AND CITATION OF AUTHORITIES

This Court possesses the inherent discretion to stay these proceedings. Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 706 (1997) ("The Disctrict Court has broad discretion to stay proceedings as an incident to its power to control its own docket."). As this Court has previously explained, "[e]very court has the inherent power to stay causes on its docket with a view to avoiding [the] ... waste of time and effort by itself, the litigants and counsel." Stern v. United States, 563 F. Supp. 484, 489 (D. Nev. 1983).

Here, the court should stay the remaining proceedings related to the issue of preliminary injunctive relief because, contrary to the Court's diective, SCO has no idea at this time whether it is entitled to a preliminary injunction or whether it even intends to move for such relief. Instead, SCO has announced through its Injunctive Relief Statement that it intends to use the expedited discovery period for what amounts to a fishing expedition to determine whether or not it has any legitimate basis to file a motion for preliminary injunction on any issue. Such a fishing expedition violates the Court's ruling, and will be a waste of time, effort and money by the Court, the litigants, and third party witnesses.

[2] SCO states in its Injunctive Relief Statement that it "believes that it is reasonably like that AutoZone copied SCO's copyrighted material during the migration process ...;" however, this statement does not amount to a statement by SCO that it has a right to a preliminary injunction and can satisfy the onerous elements necessary to be entitled to such relief. See SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement, p. 2.

SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement and its plan to conduct discovery is base entirely on SCO's erroneous statement that:

     The court has permitted SCO to conduct limited discovery on
     [AutoZone's migration from a Unix Operating System to a Linux
     Operating System] in order to determine whether or not to file
     a motion for preliminary injunctive relief.

SCO's Injunctive Relief Statement, pp. 1-2 (emphasis added). The Hearing Transcript clearly demonstrates that the Court never authorized SCO to conduct discovery "to determine whether or not" to file a motion for preliminary injunction. To the contrary, the Court clearly stated: "[i]f you [SCO] don't have the right to a preliminary injunction, you shouldn't proceeed with discovery at all." Hearing Transcript, 24:22-23 (emphasis added)[3]. SCO's intent to pursue expedited discovery is therefore not authorized by this Court, and AutoZone respectfully requests that all further proceedings in the case be stayed pending resolution of the previously filed IBM, Red Hat and Novell cases.

This 1st day of Setember, 2004.

[signed: James J. Pisanelli.]

[3] SCO's deliberate waffling "whether or not to" language in its Injunctive Relief Statement is not surprising. Given that SCO did not seek a preliminary injunction when it originally filed its Complaint, SCO now wants to cover itself in the event that SCO elects not to file a motion for preliminary injunction. SCO can then point to the language in its Injunctive Relief Statement after it subjects AutoZone to expedited discovery and does not file a motion, and explain to the Court that it subsequently learned that it did not have grounds for preliminary injunctive relief, notwithstanding that such grounds were a prerequisite to conducting discovery in the first place.

[ Other signatories ]

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

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The Dinosaur with a Club at the End of its Tail

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SCO could have supplied some evidence
Authored by: sander123 on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 02:54 AM EDT
I'm surpised that SCO doesn't supply some proof. Hear me out:

When SCO writes:

'Based on SCO's employees' of the Autozone system, SCO is informed and believes
the Autozone 'copied' certain copyrighted material [...] including [...] static
shared libraries'

I presume that some part of it is probably true. SCO did have employees that
serviced the Autozone system. Why don't attach a deposition from one them to
actually show that?

Even if Autozone doesn't use the library *now* it certainly used it in the past.
They must have somebody who can testify to that. There case would be so much
stronger if they presented *some* evidence.


Sander (ianal)

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay - PDF and text
Authored by: dodger on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 03:01 AM EDT
Filing for an emergency stay seems a good defensive move. Isn't there some
offensive move that AutoZone can take as well
that would put some sting into the slap that SCOG should get for rewriting the
judge's order, ignoring the court's decision, and pressing on with the circus?

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Has Autozone screwed up?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 04:49 AM EDT
What definition of "Emergency Motion" does AutoZone have in mind? The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure don't say anything about emergencies, and the Nevada Rules only have a provision for emergency discovery disputes, which LR 26-7(c) says "shall be entitled 'Emergency Motion' and be accompanied by an affidavit setting forth" the efforts made to resolve the dispute without the court's help.
http://www.nvd.uscourts.gov/LR_IV.aspx

If AutoZone intends this as a LR 26-7(c) motion, then it screwed up by not including the affidavit.

Is there some other concept of "emergency motion" that's at play here?

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I don't get it.
Authored by: mobrien_12 on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 04:51 AM EDT
Maybe it's because it's 3 am but I just don't get this.

The judge gave SCOG time to do limited discovery so that they could make produce
evidence that they were entitled to a preliminary injunction.

Judge Jones: My contemplation was to allow you during thirty days to propound
discovery sufficient to form a factual presentation to the court that you have
the right to a preliminary injunction.

The Judge (and I don't think he was doing a very good job on this) gave SCO a
limited fishing expedition and didn't give them well defined limits.

Now SCO is doing that. What exactly does AZ have to fight this with?

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OT: Federal Juristiction
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 05:07 AM EDT
I've just reading a judgement in an unrelated case: Chamberlain Vs. Skylink which appears to conflict with Kimball's ruling in the Novell case, denying SCO's motion to remand.

In the Novell case, Kimball ruled that SCO's complaint "arose under" the copyright act, and required its "construction", which gave the Federal court subject matter juristiction. Applying the same reasoning to Chamberlain, it would appear to be a slam-dunk that Federal juristiction would apply. The case conserned the application of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions, and the court analyses the legislation in merticulous detail.

Yet instead of concluding that it has subject matter juristiction over a DMCA claim, the court goes into an increadibly complex analysis, looking, not at the claim at issue, but various other claims in the litigation and how they had been dismissed. Finally it conclude that it has pendant juristiction.

So what's the difference between the two cases? I can think of two possibilities:

1. The DMCA is not considered part of the Copyright Act, for the purposes of determining subject matter juristiction. (This seems unlikely, given that the judgement itself says 'The provisions relevant to circumvention are all in a new chapter of the Copyright Act, Chapter 12, titled "Copyright Protection and Management System"')

2. Different rules apply to Federal juristicion and Appellate juristiction. If that is the case, which appellate court would hear any appeals of Kimball's rulings?

Could any Groklawyers, or knowlegable Groklaymen comment?

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay - PDF and text
Authored by: dopple on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 06:07 AM EDT
"SCO is further informed and believes that it is reasonably likely that Autozone has also improperly used and/or copied the following additional copyrighted code and manuals during and after the migration process:
[...]
(c) Kernel optimization features"
(emphasis added)

Wha...? I'm trying really hard to think of something that falls under that heading, is copyrightable, and is also possible to copy into a completely different kernel environment.. but I'm just not coming up with anything.

SCO reminds me more and more of an old co-worker who could always talk about how good he was, but never had any details when asked what he had done..

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay - PDF and text
Authored by: blacklight on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 06:38 AM EDT
"The whole world eventually decided they'd be better off fighting to the
death, so to speak" PJ

That's because the text of SCOG's pleadings was made widely available to those
who would get off their butts and look for it. And word got around that fighting
back on the facts, the law and the facts relevant to the law won't hurt you
anywhere as bad as NOT fighting back at all. I'd say that for DCC, the SCOG
litigation was just an item of the cost of doing business - they get sued all
the time for various real or imagined reasons by all sorts of parties and DCC
has a budget requisition set aside for litigation anyway, and SCOG was just
another bunch of loonies, wannabe tough guys and wouldbe extortionists to be
dealt with.

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Wow... SCO admits it's not SCO!
Authored by: Dark on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 07:10 AM EDT
From page 2 of their statement:
Santa Cruz Operations ("old SCO"), a predecessor in interest to SCO, ...
This is the first time I've seen them refer to Santa Cruz Operation as a separate company. They do get the name wrong, though, which is funny in its own way.

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay - PDF and text
Authored by: rjamestaylor on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 07:50 AM EDT
<SCOSource>
    Rhett, I'm weak, I'm fainting --
</SCOSource>

<RhettHat>

    Frankly, SCOSource, I don't give a [Edited for Groklaw]
</RhettHat>

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SCO delenda est! Salt their fields!

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Foul language in parent
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 08:06 AM EDT
By PJ's standard, anyway. Do read the Important Stuff section right below the
place where you type the comment. It's really handy when you want your post to
survive the moderation roundup.

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  • Troll alert - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 08:43 AM EDT
Search Warrant analogy.
Authored by: Brian S. on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 08:24 AM EDT
SCO has a "thing" about discovery. If these cases were part of a
criminal investigation into theft of property the script would read something
like this.

SCOG keeps all his wordly goodies in a lockup. Over the years much has been
accumulated and inherited. SCOG is no longer sure exactly what he has got and
where it came from.
However recently he has been watching his neighbours with suspicion. They seem
to be doing so much better than him. Mrs. Jones at no.5 has been wearing some
jewellery that SCOG swears looks just like some he had stored and as for that
red lawnmower they've been using on the grass at no.11 . SCOG thought he had two
because he bought a second when the first broke down, but couldn't be quite sure
whether or not he took the first to the dump.

Standing in front of his pile in the lockup one day whilst not wearing his
tinfoil hat, SCOG became convinced that things were going missing and what's
more some of his neighbors seemed to have possessions he thought might well be
his. Nothing to be done except report them to the police.

On what grounds do you alledge theft? asks the desk officer. "Well they've
got possessions which look just like mine" says SCOG. "I marked all my
possessions with an antitheft code, can't you get a search warrant for the whole
street?". "Not that simple" says the desk officer, "we've
got to have more than that to go on". "We need a detailed list of what
is missing, a good description of said property and valid reasons why your
neighbors may be stealing from you". "No can do" says SCOG
"but if we just go and search I'm sure we'll find something".

Six months later and SCOG is still after a search warrant for the whole street
and still hasn't come up with a list of the alledged missing property.

Brian S.

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Re; Assyria & SCO
Authored by: digger53 on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 08:31 AM EDT
It's hard to see SCO as an Assyria, Assyria was successful
after a fashion. MicroSoft has a better claim to the
mantle of Assyrian militarism. SCO is an Assyrian toad--or
a buffoon pretending to be Assyria.

PJ, have you read Arnold Toynbee's account of Assyria's
demise? Highly recommened.

Keep up the good work.

Jim

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When all else fails, follow directions.

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Definition of Copyright
Authored by: aaron_tx on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 09:15 AM EDT
And once again we have $CO trying to apply copyright to unprotectable elements
of code - "and other non-literal elements of the code." If it is
non-literal, how can it be copyrighted?

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Emergency Motion
Authored by: Griffin3 on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 09:15 AM EDT
I hate to be dense here, but, I've searched through the links on the left,
cannot find an answer. What does "Emergency" Motion to Stay mean?
Just, "Please break into your normal schedule and look at this"? I'm
not grokking the legal meaning from context, here ...

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Arias
Authored by: josmith42 on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 09:21 AM EDT
"Now, that's a very different song from the aria they sang in their complaint."

They're not singing arias, they're singing recitatives!

Disclaimer: if you did not get this joke, you must watch more opera.

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Forty-two: the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything.

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Cross Disciplinary Perspective
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 10:48 AM EDT
I'm glad you've brought up history here for an analogy. Something I've been
thinking about for some time is that what might bring some intersting
prespectives on this case is if an anthropologist or sociobiologist ( or even a
psychologist) gave their opinion as to what's been going on.

For the record I dont use Linux, CBS's Survivor and Fox's American Idol are not
on the air at the moment, in their place I follow the SCO case for it's
entertainment value.

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay - PDF and text
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 11:08 AM EDT
Maybe their whole cause of actions is AZ using the manuals (unauthorized use)
for help in migration.

'Your honor, it is reasonable that they relied on our copyrighted manuals for
their migration, which is illegal and violates our interpretations of the
contracts and the copyright law'....

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Exactly what SCO planned and wanted
Authored by: feysage on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 11:21 AM EDT

And that, I now believe, is exactly what SCO planned and wanted. They wanted to be public bullies, to terrify companies into taking a license. I guess they thought after a few examples of terrorizing their victims by dragging them through a court process that was so ridiculous no one could feel their chances were any better than the victim's, everyone would line up like docile little lambs.

This has been discussed thoroughly on groklaw many times, but perhaps looking back at a specific example is useful. Of all the indicators that SCOG planned a legal shakedown merely on the nuisance value of litagation, this one is my favorite (emphasis mine).

At Silicon Stemcell, McBride and Anderer polished the strategy they'd repeat at SCO: turning intellectual property into a revenue stream. Anderer, McBride, and four managers who had served with them at Ikon's technology services division pooled their ideas for products, then attempted to patent them. It was 1999, and they were in the business vanguard, devising a new way to create wealth. Something as intangible as a claim to owning an idea, they realized, could be used to extract money from innovators in related fields. Even if Silicon Stemcell's patents weren't finalized, it might still be cheaper for startups to pay licensing fees to Anderer's group than to fight protracted legal battles. Silicon Stemcell wouldn't even have to create businesses, it could thrive just by collecting these fees. Stanford law professor Mark Lemley, who specializes in patent law, calls this "the business model of the new millennium."


From the Wired article The Linux Killer by way of Darl McBride, the Man Nobody Bothers to Hate, and His Buddy Mike Anderer Cook Up a Scheme

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SCO deliberately throws the PI motion
Authored by: elcorton on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 11:28 AM EDT
I think SCO intentionally served a defective statement on AutoZone,
knowing that the judge would then refuse to allow them to move for a
PI. Here is why.

Some here think that the judge made some sort of mistake in handing
SCO an engraved invitation to file for a PI. That's not true; he
knew exactly what he was doing. SCO obviously didn't want to move
for a PI; otherwise it would have done so when it filed the
complaint, as is usual in such cases. The reason why SCO didn't want
a PI is that it would then have to take part in a kind of
accelerated mini-trial, with relaxed standards of proof, and with
the judge as trier of fact. SCO would have to convince Jones that it
would probably win in the full trial. Among other things, it would
have to show that it was probably the rightful owner of the System V
copyrights, an impossible task in itself.

That's an invitation SCO can't accept and can't decline. If it
accepts, it will shortly lose the motion, and a second federal judge
will be on record as thinking that its case is weak. If it declines,
SCO will be admitting that its case is weak.

The solution is to deliberately botch the motion, so it will be
rejected on a technicality rather than on the merits. That's the
most inconclusive, and thus the best, outcome SCO can hope for.

And by the way, contrary to what some here have said, the Cadence
case shows that AutoZone can't defend against a PI motion on the
issue of irreparable harm. It would have to challenge SCO's case on
the merits, head on. The judge knows that, and that's why he put SCO
in this impossible position. The exception to the stay will be
canceled, and Jones won't have to do anything else except dismiss or
summarily decide the case after SCO loses to IBM on counterclaim 10.

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How bad it is that lawyers run this world
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 12:02 PM EDT
Doesn't this make it apparent how bad it is for the whole world that lawyers
make the rules for how things are done in the world these days? I don't know
right now how to fix this, or how to make it better, but in spite of the valient
work of PJ, this all looks very bad to me. Anyone else see it this way?

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What Are These Libraries Anyhow?
Authored by: John Hasler on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 12:46 PM EDT
When TSG discusses the porting question they avoid mentioning source. They are
trying to give the impression that what AZ ported was third-party binaries, not
source they wrote themselves. This, of course, would be hard to do without
TSG's libraries. They hope to get away with this because most people think of
programs as immutable binaries you buy, not sources that you write yourself.

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Looks Like SCO *Won't* Be Filing Any New Suits
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 12:48 PM EDT
PJ: "[SCO] wanted to be public bullies, to terrify companies into taking a
license."

They may have lost their edge, if they ever had and edge, on their ability to
"terrify companies into taking a license".

In particular Bert Young's comment on the new BSF agreement indicates that it
applies to "pending litigation" only. I can't think of any reason why
Bert would say "pending litigation" instead of "future
litigation" unless the agreement is limited to the pending lawsuit only.
Here's the quote from the Earnings Call Trancscript:

Bert Young: ... [W]e're pleased to have entered into a letter of intent with
Boies Schiller & Flexner ... Boies Schiller & Flexner has agreed to lead
SCO's efforts through the duration and completion of the *pending*
litigation." (emphasis mine)

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Why was DC case thrown out and not Autozone?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:06 PM EDT
How did DC manage to kick SCO arse, but Autozone is still in court? Aren't the
case identical? Can't Autozone just cite the DC case as a precedent, or at
least copy their legal tactics?

Did DC have better lawyers?
Is the court location a factor?
Or what?

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Autozone Files Emergency Motion to Stay - PDF and text
Authored by: jim Reiter on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 03:41 PM EDT
Don't you have to own the copyrights you claim have been infringeg?

Since Novell did not transfer any Patents or Copyrights to SCOI, where did
Caldera/TSG get these copyrights from?

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SCO (almost) admit they are not entitled to preliminary injunction - about the delay
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 03 2004 @ 08:30 PM EDT
One interesting point that nobody has touched on...

If I understand SCO's statement of claim correctly, their alleged knowledge is based on events in 1998-2000

That means that even if (arguendo) their claims were true, they waited at least four years before bringing the action against AutoZone in 2004.

I recommend referring back to AutoZone's reply memo in support of stay or more definite statement....

In this memo, AutoZone pointed to a couple of cases, where a long delay in bringing an action removed the presumption of irreparable harm with regard to a preliminary injunction. The long delay that removed this presumption, was, from memory, 11 months.

It seems to me, on that basis, SCO's statement almost admits that they are not entitled to a preliminary injunction on this principle alone.

Quatermass
IANAL IMHO etc

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Did anybody else notice their citation?
Authored by: bpmann on Saturday, September 04 2004 @ 12:10 AM EDT
Is that the Clinton vs. Jones case that I think it is?

Brian

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