To: marcos who wrote (11804 ) 11/15/1998 4:34:00 PM From: Janice Shell Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 26163
The Court doesn't seem to like Mikey all that much. In the course of the hearing the Court became a bit testy on more than one occasion. But let's turn momentarily to a secondary issue. We remember that the pathetic Spidey has been insisting for some time now that the suit brought by First Concorde against AZNT in California had been dismissed. Where DOES this moron get his information? Here we have Judge George discussing the California suit with Robert Qualey. Background: Bruce Judd of First Concorde has requested a change of venue to California:21 The other kinds of things that are being asked, first of 22 all, with respect to the Court choosing to abstain, and you 23 didn't know, if I remember correctly, what you told me when we 24 were together before, you didn't know about the California 25 action having been filed, and it was filed in state court. ASSOCIATED REPORTERS OF NEVADA (702) 382-8778 1 I was confused because there's also a request that I 2 should, if we intend to maintain a federal lawsuit, that it 3 should be transferred to the central district. I have a hard 4 time imagining why if that's the case. No one has given me any 5 clear understanding that venue there is better than here. As a 6 matter of fact, it seems perhaps there are venue reasons for 7 keeping it here. 8 The abstention, normally, you consider a number of factors. 9 But an additional factor is what has been done in the earlier 10 file proceeding. That is to say in the state court in 11 California. And if I understand correctly, it appears that 12 nothing has been done, and so I don't know that -- 13 MR. QUALEY: There's not even an initial meeting 14 scheduled until 1999 as I understand it. We return to this question later in the hearing: Qualey at this point is trying to persuade George that orchestrating a short squeeze is AZNT's right and duty, but the judge does not agree:17 MR. QUALEY: And we're not asking that. We just want 18 to stop the ham to the company. 19 THE COURT: Well, it seems to me as close as you can 20 come to that is being suggested in this proposed order. Now, 21 you want to talk about it for a few minutes. Go ahead and do 22 so. And I'll come back in 15 minutes. And if there are any 23 changes that yon agree to, fine. 24 And what about you, Mr. Judd? Are you satisfied with what 25 you've given me as far as the -- I'm not inclined to either ASSOCIATED REPORTERS OF NEVADA (702) 382-8778 85 SYLVER - DIRECT 1 send this to California or nor am I inclined, and you may want 2 to argue those questions, to even defer to the California 3 court. I don't think anything's been done in that California 4 court. So, it would seem that the California case is still on the books. Wrong yet again, Spidey. So far, I'm afraid, you've scored no points at all in this debate. Dummy. Better call Mikey. Only I don't think he'll really be able to help. For both of you, as Lee so memorably said: get mirror off desk back on wall. too much stevia not good!!