I suppose one could be gratified to learn that there are institutions that move at least as slowly as libraries, but I'm not happy about the delayed gratification that entails, nor the fact that it means that will we have to try to move forward as a community without having answers for quite a while.
The recent documents that have been filed with the court in the SkyRiver/OCLC case have the following actions and dates in them:
First, OCLC will request that the suit be moved from Northern California to the Southern District of Ohio. Just to cover that motion will take us through October, 2010.
If that does not derail the current calendar (and I presume it could cause this date to be moved back), then the Case Management Conference will be on January 14, 2011 in the San Francisco courtroom.
No, I have no idea what a "case management conference" is but it sounds like something preliminary. I would love it if someone with a legal background could offer some occasional commentary on what some of these steps mean. Right now I presume that all of this is par for the course for lawsuits of this nature, but never having observed such a case before, I really have no idea. Anyone know some law librarians who can chime in?
