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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by throwaway90125 on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:13AM (#14217202)
Uber has requested that Larry Page be deposed and they have questions they want to ask him under oath. That's fact, not hearsay. They clearly have questions the truth of which will weaken Waymo's position. Lawyers don't ask questions they don't already know the answer to. The only unknown is if Larry will lie under oath or be able to skillfully answer in a way that doesn't hurt Waymo's position.
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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by dang on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:28PM (#14222341)
> The bias is dripping off your lips.

Please don't comment uncivilly here.

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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by throwaway90125 on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:59AM (#14217919)
Again, lawyers don't ask questions that they don't already know the answer to. They wouldn't ask to depose him if they didn't think the answers would help their position. This is lawyering 101 level obviousness.
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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by gvb on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:04AM (#14219437)
This is a deposition, not the trial. Lawyers ask as many questions as possible in the deposition and drill in on all problem areas looking for contradictions and undisclosed information. That's how the Waymo lawyers found out about Spider. "Waymo learned of Spider’s existence during the deposition of Asheem Linaval, an engineer Levandowski recruited from Google to join him at Uber..."[1]

In a trial, they only ask questions that whose answers are beneficial to their case. They know the answers are beneficial because they already asked the questions in deposition. If the answer is different at the trial, it is perjury. If the answer is the same, it helps their case.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/a-waymo-filing-leaks-lidar...

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Re:Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies l... by TorKlingberg on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:30AM (#14218536)
So if Uber were simply in the wrong, their lawyers would not ask any questions at all?
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