Would you like to see how lawyers and judges talk to each other when there's no jury around to worry about? We get to, because the court has now made public the transcript of the
August 21, 2009 hearing [PDF] in
Psystar v. Apple. All we knew at the time was the
very spare wording in the minutes of the hearing.
As you'll see, when judges talk to lawyers, it can be very straight talk. No feather boas or glitter, no pretty pictures, and no smoothing over what he thinks. You'll also see a lot of strategy in real time on the part of the lawyers as they try to read the judge's inclinations and mood, not to mention trying to see how to help him grasp what he doesn't yet understand. And the judge? He's cutting to the chase, looking at the law, the issues, and what his role is and what the jury should and shouldn't hear. What was at issue in this hearing was discovery violations.
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