“Being a lawyer requires a mix of skills, part chess master, part negotiator, part brainiac, part wordsmith, and part street theater artist.”
...part liar, part cheat, part lout, part dirty rotten bastard, part greedy son of a bitch, ...
When you look at the decisions that the Court has made so far - you DO get the feeling that she is in the tank for Apple! The Samsung lawyer pretty effectively boxes her ears with her own words, tied in with a little thing called the First Amendment in defending the press release.
The court had previously denied 3rd party litigants motions to seal contracts between themselves and Samsung - the court said that the proceedings needed to be “Open” ;-) So the Samsung lawyer points out that re-releasing documents that were already in the public arena, that weren’t sealed by the court, and that were released AFTER a jury had been selected (a jury is assumed to follow the rules and NOT read publicity about the trial) was above board and proper.
He also goes on to point out that Apple had been defaming Samsung in the press and that Samsung has the right to respond (that little First Amendment thing..)
I think the judge should be fairly chastened after getting the lawyers response. I imagine she won’t be though.