Michael Gordon was a Fair Isaac executive who left Fair Isaac to become C.E.O. of a direct competitor in England. Fair Isaac sued Mr. Gordon and his new company, Callcredit Information Group, Ltd., which is located in England. Mr. Gordon had signed Fair Isaac’s non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreements to protect Fair Isaac’s confidential and proprietary […]
Fair Isaac’s trial against Experian, Transunion, and Equifax (the credit-reporting agencies that went in on a venture to have another consumer credit-worthiness scoring system other than Fair Isaac’s “FICO score), and against others (e.g., Vantage Score, the referenced “venture”), did not go well for Fair Isaac. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Montgomery (D. Minn.) […]
[12/11/09 UPDATE: The Minnesota Litigator jumped the gun. Before the appeal comes Fair Isaac’s motion for an amended judgment, judgment as a matter of law, a new trial or, in the alternative, findings of fact filed 12/10/09.] In a large lawsuit covered in this blog previously here (discovery deadline dispute), here (technology in the courtroom), […]
If, hypothetically, your business were devising a business strategy that could, if successful, severely impact if not destroy another business, should you “reasonably foresee” litigation at the outset of implementing that business strategy? A person must preserve documents that the person knows or should know will be discoverable in “reasonably foreseeable” litigation. In the hypothetical, […]
Update: The Fair Isaac litigation was the subject of an earlier entry (below), a skirmish about deadlines. A deadline, again, is the subject of motion practice. This time it is a motion to exclude Experian’s amended exhibit list as untimely, set for hearing tomorrow afternoon, less than ten days before the scheduled start of trial […]
Fair Isaac Corporation (“FICO”) is a Delaware corporation with its HQ now in California (and, before that, with its HQ in Minneapolis (2004-2013)). Callcredit Information Group Limited is an English company with its headquarters in the United Kingdom and offices in Japan, Lithuania, China, and Dubai. Michael Gordon left FICO to become Callcredit’s CEO and, […]
Update (January 29, 2013): Closely related to the challenges businesses face in deals involving complex computer systems, discussed below (scope of work, budgeting, feasibility, and dispute resolution), is the litigator’s nightmare of “e-discovery.” 400 gigabytes balloons to a terabyte. A five week project stretches for months. More than two years ago Plaintiff RTI brought a […]
From time to time, Minnesota courts remind us that case schedules are sometimes read and applied strictly. In the long-standing District of Minnesota case of Nicollet Cattle Co. v. United Food Group (“UFG”), U.S. District Court Judge John R. Tunheim (D. Minn.) recently issued the latest reminder. In November, 2009, UFG changed trial lawyers and […]
It might sometimes seem that courts have a bit of a split personality regarding technology in the courtroom, both taking pride in high-tech courtroom features and famously proclaiming that some technology will only come into the court over the judge’s dead body. Of course, the important distinction is whether the high-tech features are there to […]