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| SCO Ordered to Reply to Novell's Petition for Rehearing |
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Thursday, September 17 2009 @ 03:59 PM EDT
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The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals is taking Novell's Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing en Banc seriously. They have ordered SCO to file a response within 14 days of the order. This is a significant order, in my view, and a major win for Novell. Here is the order:
09/17/2009 - Open Document - [9693254] Order filed by Clerk of the Court response to petition for rehearing en banc due. Response due on 10/01/2009 for SCO Group. Served on 09/17/2009.
"This matter is before the court on appellee’s Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc. The appellant shall file a response within 14 days of the date of this order." So 14 days from September 17. I've seen a number of comments on how hard it is statistically to get a rehearing, but what you are overlooking is the following explanation, from California Appeals Statistics:
Before you decide whether to start or defend an appeal, you may want to consider the overall statistics. That said, the chances of any specific appeal succeeding depend on the merits of that case. There are no quotas that the courts apply. When one considers reversal rates, one has to keep in mind that the overall statistics include a fair number of appeals that are hopeless and that never had any realistic chance of success. So Novell's chances were never statistically determined. It is on the merits that such matters are decided, and at a minimum, it's now clear that the appeals court believes Novell's points require SCO to answer.
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