> If you are doing
> something wrong, stop.
You may be a lawyer, but this is clearly bad advice if your client was Apple.
It's not like they couldn't afford competent legal advice, and surely they either knew they were flaunting the injunction, or could have predicted that the judge would take this view of their activity.
So, they're set on doing the "wrong" thing, but could still use legal advice.
What I'm amazed at up-thread is how seemingly incompetent they were at changing their workflow so they wouldn't hand the court evidence on a silver platter.
In this case, surely they could have pulled all the stakeholders into a room with a whiteboard, and made sure nobody kept any records of the meeting.
They'd have ended up with the same wording, but the court couldn't have merely done a text search of relevant Slack conversations.
Yes, the court could have eventually forced everyone who was in that room to testify, but the end result would have been a bunch of "I think so-and-so wanted it more such-and-such".
Surely that's better than the sort of quotes the court could copy/paste into its decision.
It's not like they couldn't afford competent legal advice, and surely they either knew they were flaunting the injunction, or could have predicted that the judge would take this view of their activity.
So, they're set on doing the "wrong" thing, but could still use legal advice.
What I'm amazed at up-thread is how seemingly incompetent they were at changing their workflow so they wouldn't hand the court evidence on a silver platter.
In this case, surely they could have pulled all the stakeholders into a room with a whiteboard, and made sure nobody kept any records of the meeting.
They'd have ended up with the same wording, but the court couldn't have merely done a text search of relevant Slack conversations.
Yes, the court could have eventually forced everyone who was in that room to testify, but the end result would have been a bunch of "I think so-and-so wanted it more such-and-such".
Surely that's better than the sort of quotes the court could copy/paste into its decision.