IOW, he's convinced, and I have to concur on that basis, that IBM is signaling that they really, really WANT their pound of flesh (and quart of blood - no Merchant of Venice out when the Nazgul are on the hunt!).

Hence tonight's docket poem:

The Nazgul wish that Darl remember
They have a date to him dismember.
Lest he think they've forgot his tort,
A new wraith sits in Debtors Court.

A great man brought to slaughter fools
The very one who wrote the rules.
Even in Debtors Court SCOX cannot hide
From fate deserved by the lies of McBride.

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If they're really going to go after McBride, Yarro and BSF, yes it really could be another decade of litigation (remember how long DOJ v IBM drew out?).   But that's justice win, lose or draw (and it's likely win for IBM with Darl pauperized, and Yarro at least deeply shriven).  Yarro, McBride and to a lesser extent Boise are going to have their lives disrupted to deal with *tons* (very close to literally) of nuisance paperwork and scheduled time for dealing with depositions and court hearings  and always be looking over their shoulders and having to check with lawyers before they can sneeze - as close to a living hell as can be made of lives of people of means ...  while for IBM's lawyers the whole time is literally just another day at the office.