Novell Responds to SCO's Objections to its Bill of Costs

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Novell Responds to SCO's Objections to its Bill of Costs

Novell has responded to SCO's Objections to Novell's Bill of Costs for the two trials. Novell did not fail to notice and point out to the court SCO's cheeky move, asking that the court deny the entire bill, when some of it was costs from the first Utah trial that had already been authorized by the court:

SCO objects to $2,914.74 in costs for folders and binders, which were part of the copy costs. Rather than further dispute entitlement to such costs, Novell withdraws its request for them. However, SCO's assertion that because Novell failed to disaggregate these costs, the Court should "deny Novell's Bill of Costs in its entirety," is absurd. (Objections to Bill of Costs at 7.) Novell's Bill of Costs contains several entries that are not even addressed in SCO's Objections, not the least of which is $99,639.09 in costs that were previously awarded by the Court following the initial bench trial and simply have never been paid by SCO.

After the first trial, SCO objected to Novell's Bill of Costs, got it reduced, and then, despite the court ordering SCO to pay it, never did so. Now they ask that the court toss the bill overboard. Like I say, cheeky. I'm a little shocked that SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn would allow such a request. SCO seems to show no sense of honor at all about its debts.

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