“Lawyers for Samsung got a reminder of Judge Lucy Koh’s temper on Monday morning when a remark made by one of their witnesses made them the target of her anger for more than 20 minutes,” Martyn Williams reports for IDG News Service. “Kevin Jeffay, a professor at the University of North Carolina, had just began delivering testimony when he asserted that the court had stopped from him using a specific definition of a software term in his work.”
“Jeffay’s comment that his definition agreed with that of the appeals court but that he couldn’t use it didn’t sit well with Judge Koh,” Williams reports. “She called a halt to the testimony, told the jurors to leave the courtroom and, showing anger for the first time in the trial, challenged Samsung lawyer David Nelson to back up that claim. As Samsung lawyers scrambled to find a reference, she also called to Jeffay, who was still in the courtroom. ‘Point me to the paragraph Sir, you just testified. Where is it?,’ Koh said while Samsung lawyers scrambled to find previous testimony that backed up their claim.”
“‘You can’t tell me a single sentence in his expert report where he took ownership of the construction,’ she said, banging her hand on the table as she did so,” Williams reports. “After putting Samsung attorneys on the hot spot for more than 20 minutes, she said she would instruct the jury to ignore his comments. ‘I’m going to strike what he just said. I think he was primed to say it and that is improper,’ she said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ooh. She banged her hand on the table. Thrilling.
We’re so far past the point of “whatever” on this endless fiasco (this has to be the slowest thermonuclear explosion in the history of the universe) that all we have left to say is: “Show us the money!”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]