Okay, nobody cheer, nobody panic! These are all TENTATIVE rulings in the AXANAR lawsuit. Judge Klausner himself even made sure to put the word TENTATIVE in ALL CAPS in his ruling yesterday:
The Court makes the following TENTATIVE rulings on the Motions In Limine:
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 1 – Denied
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 2 – Granted
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 3 – Granted
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 4 – Granted
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 5 – Granted
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 6 – Under Submission
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 7 – Granted
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 8 – Granted
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 9 – Denied
- Plaintiff’s Motions In Limine No. 10 – Granted
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 1 – Granted
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 2 – Denied
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 3 – Granted
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 4 – Granted
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 5 – Granted
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 6 – Granted
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 7 – Denied
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 8 – Denied
- Defendant’s Motion In Limine No. 9 – Granted
So what the heck just happened? Well, first of all, each party submitted motions in limine to Judge R. Gary Klausner on December 16 asking for certain pieces of evidence and witnesses (including me!) to be excluded from being presented or mentioned during the trial. I wrote about all of those 19 motions in a 4-part blog starting here. (It’s nice light reading.)
Then, last Friday, both the plaintiffs and the defense submitted 19 separate OPPOSITIONS to those 19 motions in limine…which I’ve collected for your reading pleasure into this single 143-page PDF: Oppositions to Motions In Limine. (Yeah, talk about light reading!)
I’d actually begun preparing one of my meticulously entertaining (or entertainingly meticulous) blog analyses of those oppositions, but I got sidetracked on blogs about the Judge’s ruling on fair use last Wednesday , the likelihood of a successful appeal, and a possible trip to the Supreme Court. And and much as I was looking forward to reading through and summarizing 143 pages of dense legal arguments, that all seems like “old news” now that we’ve got this TENTATIVE (ALL CAPS!!!) ruling to look at.
So let’s look, shall we…?
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