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The claim is that the defendants didn't make the original source code available.

This is the point at which most defendants - even large, deep-pocket defendants who can otherwise afford to pay the costs of defense - will fold.

Also note that Italian defendants are allowed to lie while they are being called as witnesses.

In fact, today, for poor defendants, the lawyers on both side are already salaried state employees.

There is reason to doubt it, because very few criminal defendants actually go free after trial.

JP Morgan probably has more legal counsel than the rest of the defendants, combined.

I think many defendants do receive fair trials, whether they can afford representation or not--though this does not mean their representation could not have been better.

Large, institutional defendants have occasionally (though rarely) adopted such policies in the past.

However, these guys just won 500 million dollars -- surely Microsoft tried the same tactics that these new defendants are going to employ.

If nothing else, the sheer army of lawyers that could be brought to bear by the defendants could effectively paralyze Eolas under paperwork.

The combined legal budgets of the defendants must be massive; I wonder if they really considered that...

But defendants are often toast if they lose the expert witness credibility contest.

In US criminal cases, defendants are presumed innocent, and prosecutors must prove guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt".

DoJ sued Apple and a cartel of publishers which dominated the market: "The Publisher Defendants sold over 48% of all e-books in the U.

If Defendants had simply "scraped" from a third party who was "authorized" to access Plaitiff's website (Google?), then perhaps the outcome here might have been different?

If defendants bypassed that security measure by trying to break through this barrier by systematically attempting passwords or "hacking" their way in through some other method, then their access to Craigslist would necessarily have been "unauthorized".