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My Google searches aren't showing anything after january 2015. And the WSJ article from that date doesn't add any new information. http://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-rejects-settlement-in-sili...



Exactly my thoughts. The near silence in the MSM and tech press is most... curious.


Nothing interesting is happening, so there isn't anything for any press to report.

There were motions to seal things, and rulings on those. There have been meetings between the attorneys for both sides and the court to work out issues of case management, and rulings from the court on case management issues.

Oracle filed a motion asking to dismiss on two grounds: (1) if everything the plaintiff alleges is true, it does not amount to the crimes Oracle is accused of committing, and (2) the plaintiff waited too long to file, and has run into a statute of limitations problem. A ruling on this issued 2015-04-22, and is probably the most interesting development since the case was files.

Oracle lost on the first part of their motion. If all plaintiff allegations were proven true, they would constitute the crime plaintiff alleges, according to the court.

Oracle won on the second part of their motion. The alleged acts in their filing were long enough ago that the statute of limitations applies. The court gave the plaintiff 30 days to amend the complaint to fix this. If plaintiff fails to do so, the case will be dismissed with prejudice. (Dismissal with prejudice means it ends. Dismissal without prejudice means you can try again).

I don't know if this signals anything or not, but the court noted that the case management conference scheduled for the day after this ruling was to still go on. Maybe that means that the court thinks the plaintiffs have a good chance of amending the complaint to avoid the statute of limitations issue, and so expects the case will continue?

I'd expect the next newsworthy event to be in late May if plaintiff cannot figure out a way to amend the complaint to avoid the statute of limitations issue. If plaintiff does amend the complaint successfully, that probably won't be newsworthy, and the case will continue. That continuation will still mostly just be motions by the parties maneuvering to try to get favorable evidence in, exclude unfavorable evidence, and get favorable interpretations of the law, and the judge's rulings on those motions. None of this stuff is interesting enough to most people, even most techies, to make the news.




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