As noted above, the lawsuit was filed against Oracle Corporation - and the lawsuit's dismissal was based on grounds which, it turns out, seem to have been arranged to mislead San Mateo Superior Court into delivering an erroneous verdict, in Oracle's favor; IE, fraud.

This lawsuit merits attention, even now. With the passage of time, many of the witnesses - my peer employees and immediate management, at the time - no longer work for Oracle, and are, I believe, more free to discuss what happened, suffering less fear of retaliation, than had been the case, at the time when the events I describe, were occurring.

Some of the evidence that has accumulated, as time has passed, suggests fraud and perjury.

Some of the evidence that has accumulated, as time has passed, suggests criminal conspiracy.

There are grounds for civil suit, also, I believe.

Although the statute of limitations protects defendants in a criminal lawsuit from criminal prosecution, after seven years, the court proceedings concluded in 1997; and so it would seem that the statute of limitations will not protect this company and these individuals until 2004 ... if then, given that they seem to have deliberately misled the court ... and omitted vast reams of evidence from their response to the the subpoena(s) served, to boot.

Indeed, it is my understanding that criminal conspiracy does not have a statute of limitations; as in murder, the court, in its wisdom, declines to forgive transgressions which are calculated to pervert justice.)

Shown on the right, my name is Richard Childers.

I am a computer and networking services administrator, professionally; but I have also been a court-appointed foster parent, for several years, in the City & County of San Francisco ... as well as a frequent blood, platelet and occasional white cell donor (over 100 donations of platelets, alone) ... and a licensed amateur radio operator (callsign KG6HAC).

I'm still close to my foster daughter - who is now in her 20s, and the mother of a small child.

I am now married - and the father of three young children, as well.

After the events described, herein, occurred, I suffered what I suppose might be described as a partial breakdown, and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); this may be germane as you, the reader, try to understand why it took me so long to find the words to articulate what has happened.

I believe that the intent, on the part of specific individuals, was to overwhelm me with such an abundance of traumatic events as to create the emotional equivalent of an occlusion, as a result of being the target of a sustained assault - upon my dignity, my character, my reputation, and the integrity of my relationships with my family and friends. In this, these anonymous individuals were successful. The damage I sustained has interfered with my ability to articulate what happened for over a decade.

I cannot talk about what happened to me; I can only write about it.

I have to credit the birth of my children, and the passage of time, as the two things that have healed me most, and given me the motivation to pursue the resolution of this state of affairs.

The events I relate, herein, constitute unacceptable behavior on the part of a group of people. Once one realizes this, one is faced with a fundamental decision. Are you going to accept this? The definition of unacceptable behavior is, after all, behavior that one refuses to accept or condone. I have consistently refused to accept, or condone, this behavior - and I have suffered for my stand.

Some day my children will ask me to explain to them, why it is that I have no mother, no father, no brothers, no friends ... why they have no paternal grandparents or uncles ... and when they do, I will be able to answer their questions - in detail, with exhibits.

Naturally there are those whom, reading this, would suggest that I was in need of some sort of counselling (other than legal counsel, that is).

It's not impossible that they are correct - and yet, if I were to discuss this case with a hypothetical crisis counselor of some sort, it's likely that, after reviewing my actions - which are writing about what happened and seeking tangible resolution - that they would agree that I could do nothing better than what I am doing now.

One consequence of this insight is that one realizes that those whom would urge me to remain silent about this matter have motives other than my wellbeing at heart.

It would probably be wiser to assume that I have already received all the medical counselling that I may (or may not) require, in order to demand an accounting. The time has arrived for the accounting. It has been delayed for over a decade. There is no need to wait any longer.

Some people like to cast accusations that are harder to deny. Witchcraft was very popular, a few centuries ago ... nowadays, mental illness, which is equally vague, invisible, and frightening, is used, instead.

Let me assure you - I am not suffering from any mental illness. I've seen a few mentioned - schizophrenia, and paranoia, seem to be the favorites.

And if I were, this would only indicate that I was incompetent to handle my own affairs - non compos mentis - and would extend the deadlines for filing a lawsuit until such time as I was again sane.

There is no pathological behavior, on my part, however - only a pointed description of a pathological situation, that has come into being through sustained oblivion, on the part of sundry individuals ... whose competence, impartiality, and accountability are being publicly scrutinized, and whose best defense against charges of incompetence is, apparently, to attack the source, and to try to erode the credibility of their opposition.

As for schizophrenia - one charge which a few correspondents have deployed - I've read Gregory Bateson's theory of the double bind (while studying cybernetics), and I've read other studies that refute the memetic aspect, and argue, instead, for changes in brain chemistry.

While researching this article I discovered another interesting link, discussing the diagnosis of mental illness through analysis of problem solving algorithms, as represented in the Prolog programming language. As can be seen, it's just not that simple to diagnose mental illness.

And there are serious questions to be asked of anyone whom arrogates, to themselves, the capacity to remotely diagnose schizophrenia.

It's all very fascinating ... but totally irrelevant to the objective facts of the matter at hand - which are fraud, perjury, and conspiracy.

Sure, it's an old trick to erode your opponent's credibility, by ...

• (a) suggesting your opponent's behavior is the product of mental disability, while
• (b) trying to provoke them to lose self-control, IE, to become angry in public, in response to (a), so that
• (c) they will be seen as emotionally unstable by third parties.

Lawyers rely on this so frequently that it has lost most of its effectiveness. It doesn't work any more, except on those who are not expecting it - much like purse-snatching, rape, kidnapping, and other forms of premeditated criminal assault.

Unfortunately, as noted above, individuals making such remote diagnoses, while not lacking, tend to universally lack the required formal qualifications - as well as the ability to articulate the specific symptoms which informed their remote diagnosis ... without any sort of examination of the patient. They often don't even know what the DMS-IV is. 'Nuff said.

Lacking evidence to the contrary, it is not unreasonable to suggest that people intent on promoting themselves to the position of licensed medical practitioner, able to diagnose (although not treat) psychiatric diseases, are probably, themselves, in greater need of psychological counseling, than I will ever be.

... As for paranoia, I can show you the electronic mail I received, a few weeks after I first posted an earlier version of this article, on www.craigslist.org; it had been forged to appear as if it had come from the Craigslist mail server ... and contained an implicit threat.

Or I could show you the (forged?) electronic mails I received from wellsfargo.com, implying that someone was trying to use the bank account that my paycheck was deposited to, when I was an employee of Oracle Corporation, to get a commercial loan - incidentally confirming that confidential employee data was leaked by someone within Oracle Corporation's Human Resources Department, recently.

No, this article is definitely not the work of a damaged mind. The attempts that have been made to portray this situation as anything other than fraud, perjury and conspiracy are best regarded as failed attempts at damage control - a last-ditch attempt at misrepresenting a grotesque foul play, in the game of life, by a pack of liars and cheats ... whose game is up.

It seems fair to say that the playing field was tilted, to give an already larger opponent, an unbeatable advantage. In retrospect, this is noteworthy, because it is suggestive that the stakes were higher than might, at first, casual examination, seem possible.

My charge is quite serious. I have been defrauded of a fair hearing before a jury of my peers.

I have absolutely no motivation to remain silent ... and I have every reason to demand a retrial (to say the least).

Indeed, I'd be crazy to do anything else. And - who knows? - perhaps I was. I was certainly numb with pain ... and so angry I was unable to speak about what had happened, for years.

I have been looking for the right words, for over ten years - and I'm still looking, even today. This is only a summary.

For several years - including the period that I was at Oracle - I was responsible for voluntarily administering the BITNET mailing lists UUS-L and, later, QUAKER-L.

Although raised as a Unitarian-Universalist, myself, I was comfortable in this dual role, as I had much in common with both groups, including an interest in religious matters, and an abiding commitment to freedom of speech and thought (which has found its greatest fusion, amongst those of a like mind, here in North America, in the Boston-based American Friends Service Committee).

The events I describe, below, make Martha Stewart look like an amateur. Successfully perpetuating frauds that sustain the passage of time requires a large group of people with familial ties - blood relatives, cellmates, members of a military unit, or something equally compelling.

Here we have a story of employees repeatedly willing to risk prison. It's worth asking: why?

It's probably relevant, here, to note that the Oracle Corporation got its start as a spinoff - presumably funded by United States taxpayer dollars - for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - writing database software. So when I refer, in this article, to relationships between the company, and The Company (as well as its brethren, around the world) ... it is a simple observation of fact.

Maybe that's a good place to start.

I started working at the Oracle Corporation in 1991 ... and, a month or so after I started working there, I was nearly fired for what can only be called political and religious reasons, related to my naive belief in the freedom of United States citizens in general, and the Internet in particular.

In order to understand these events, let's go back in time, to before I ever worked at Oracle.

A few years before my resume had ever been submitted to Oracle's MIS Department ... one rainy evening, after listening to one program too many of conspiracy theory, from nearby radio station KFJC, I had created the USENET newsgroup alt.conspiracy.

Now, let's fast-forward to the point where, several years later, I applied for employment at Oracle Corporation.

At the Oracle Corporation there was a commitment to freedom of speech. Not just a verbal contract, but unfiltered USENET newsfeed, for instance, were some of the things used to attract people to work there, in 1991. Oracle*Mail mailing lists included not just technical lists but also lists dedicated to politically and sexually charged topics, such as gay and lesbian interests.

Internally, the Oracle-based mail product, Oracle*Mail, was used by the entire company, its contents were backed up with machine-like regularity one or more times a day, and one of my coworkers - Ricardo Rivera, a senior database administrator - occupying the office two or three doors up the hall from my office, in 4OP4 (400 Oracle Parkway, 4th floor), just above the data center (4OP3), classrooms and security (4OP2), and cafeteria (4OP1) - was its primary administrator.

One day, after handling a TAR (internal slang for Technical Assistance Request) calling for the installation of trn(1) on a SunOS server, the first newsgroup I tested was alt.conspiracy - I wanted to see how my creation was doing.

Imagine my surprise when I found a huge furor over something called Holocaust Revisionism ... and a lot of effort going into censoring, by mailbombing - umm, that's electronic mail bombing, to be precise, what we nowadays call a DoS, or Denial of Service attack - the source of this forbidden reading material.

Did your blood pressure just go up? I know how you feel; maybe better than you do.

Oy vey. Don't these people have better things to do with their time?

The furor seemed to be over a few references to books by Robert Faurisson and David Irving, from a person (whom, it later turned out, was about 16 years old), posting to USENET.

However, the bullying was mercilessly coordinated, across state boundaries, by at least three individuals, all adults, located in Massachusetts (Barry Shein), Florida (Danny Keren), and Oregon (Jeff Frane), as I recall.

Jeff, if I recall correctly, played an important part, by working with local individuals to identify the 16-year-old by (apparently, illegally) accessing telephone directory information - which allowed these individuals to identify the owner of the unlisted telephone number associated with the UUCP node from which the materials were posted, and carry out, I would assume, additional, more direct forms of persuasion.

Because Barry Shein, in Boston, seemed to be the chief bully (for lack of a better term), I wrote to him (as is frequently the case, amongst peers), suggesting, via email, that the USENET - not to mention the whole United States - was founded on the principle of freedom of speech (not to mention freedom of the press), and that he should give it a try.

His response, to make a long story short, was to directly contact at least a dozen individuals (in the words of Steve Zoppi, the Director of Oracle's MIS Department, at the time) at Oracle Corporation and compel, coerce, or inflame these anonymous intermediaries into contacting Steve - and demanding that I be immediately terminated.

(The names of these dozen, or more, brave individuals remains unknown, even today, leaving me with the impression that none of these people had the courage of their convictions ... and that they are, fundamentally, cowards, as well as bullies. ... As for Barry Shein, I believe he is a strong candidate for any awards that might be intended for the inventor of the Denial of Service (DoS) concept. ... But I digress.)

After Barry Shein did this he sent me an electronic mail suggesting that I would not be at Oracle Corporation long enough to even read the electronic mail containing the information that I would not be at Oracle Corporation long enough to read the email - predicting, in retrospect, my immediate termination, without cause, as initiated by his covert actions - what we, here on the West Coast, would call blind-siding ... bush-whacking ... premeditated economic sabotage ... or, perhaps, an act of terrorism.

It seems likely that he called me anti-Semitic.

Steve Zoppi, the Director of Oracle's MIS Department, was the one who told me that at least a dozen individuals had contacted him, within Oracle Corporation, each demanding that he, Steve, immediately terminate me ... when he met, with me, and my manager - Patricia McElroy - in his office, with the door closed.

One of those so demanding my termination, I was told, was Larry Ellison's left-hand man, Robert Miner ... the person that Steve Zoppi reported to, every day.

Steve wanted to hear my side of the story; and I told him my version of events. He acknowledged that he understood my perspective. Steve told me that he did not think that my offense warranted termination - and that he did not want to be involved in an unlawful termination lawsuit.

Steve told me that he was Jewish. I slowly gathered the impression that, shall we say, a statistically improbable percentage of the population of Oracle Corporation (which numbered around 5000 at the time) was Jewish; a fact which would be difficult to prove, without prior and intimate knowledge, and which, as we will see, has profound implications.

• [1] a specific set of pagan tribes,
• [2] a specific set of monotheists,
• [3] members of an ancient civilization,
• [4] members of a specific culture,
• [5] members of a specific series of gene lines,
• [6] students of the Torah,
• [7] Zionists,
• [8] victims of The Holocaust,
• [9] the majority population of the state of Israel,
• [10] Ashkenazi,
• [11] Sephardic,
• [12] Orthodox,
• [13] Reformed,
• [14] native speakers of Hebrew,
• [15] native speakers of Yiddish.

That's not a complete list - but it does identify anthropological, archaeological, cultural, religious, genetic, political, psychological, nationalist and linguistic dimensions as critical to the definition of the term ... and nine dimensions is about three times more than most people can hold in their head ... a small indicator of the complexity of the identification - not even taking into account all the shadings and permutations implicit in a matrix possessing nine [or more] major dimensions.

When all is said and done, however, it's clear that it is a club whose membership is limited to those whose mother was a member of the club - those are the rules and that's final.

Perhaps this is, in no small part, why it would not be inaccurate to describe this club as the largest dysfunctional family in the world. Its battles with enemies - real, imagined or invented - on the outside are nothing, I surmise, compared to its internal schisms.

If we assume that, like any other population, those whom identify as Jewish, when their characteristics are mapped statistically, distribute along the lines of a bell curve ... then we can infer, from the reputation for artistic attention to detail, medical and intellectual brilliance, and a historical dedication to healing that individual members of the culture have contributed, at one end of the bell curve, that there are also members of this population whose dedication to hurting and hatred is as correspondingly great - a mafia, for lack of a better word ... and that, in the middle, as always, are the hapless majority, indifferent and oblivious to the larger issues of the day.

And there, in a nutshell, you have Judaism; a house divided, and sorely in need of healing.

The question has to be asked: Does Oracle Corporation's employees' collective behavior - motivated, as it was, by hatred and maliciously provided disinformation - constitute an hate crime? At this time, the question has yet to be answered.

(This collective behavior almost certainly had a lot to do with what happened to me, a year later, not too long after Steve Zoppi left Oracle; but these details come later in this narrative.)

It would be easy, I suppose, at this point, to dismiss me as some sort of racist. You would be getting closer to the truth - this story definitely involves a form of racism. But I am not the source.

The fact is that as a member of the San Francisco Unitarian congregation, I am probably something of a judeophile, or philosemite, rather than a judeophobe, or antisemite (whatever a semite is). I have been attending common Thanksgiving services with the congregation of Temple Emanu-El since I first became affiliated with the San Francisco Unitarian Church, in 1972, at the age of 10.

My foster daughter is half black, and half Indian; my children are half Cantonese. I, myself, am a descendant of Hungarian, Irish, Scottish, English, German, Cherokee, and Jewish peoples. I'm about as American as one can get, genetically, culturally, and historically speaking.

If I were seriously in favor of racial and cultural homogeneity, I'd have to address the thorny problem posed by my own existence.

So much for absurd and prejudicial conclusions.

And now, back to our story.

After I had showed Steve a copy of the electronic mail I had received from the Chief Bully, boasting to me that I was now unemployed, Steve told Patricia and I that he was going to stand up to his boss - Bob Miner - on this one, and that he did not want Oracle to be involved in another lawsuit.

Indeed, a few months before - this would have been August of 1991, I think - when I had been taken on an initial tour of the Oracle Data Center, I had noticed hundreds of reel-to-reel computer tapes, in boxes and piled up all around the Data Center, stacked in spare corners here and there. Concerned about offsite storage policies and the integrity of the data on the reels, I had asked about it, and had been told that they were backups related to a lawsuit, filed by some of Oracle's stockholders, against Oracle Corporation.

Now that I know more about Oracle's approach to resolving legal conflicts, I wonder whether they were rewriting the tapes to contain the data needed, in order to bring in a positive verdict.

Steve wasn't just representing his own interests here; he was representing his entire company's best interests here, because, as it so happens, that email did end up as Exhibit #1, if I recall correctly.

Steve said one other thing of importance to this story. It took several years for me to understand the full implications of what he said ...

He said that this campaign against me reminded him of the Jewish Defense League.

In retrospect, I think he was trying - circumspectly - to give me a warning. And for that - among other things - I thank him; he taught me that Jewish does not equal Jewish Defense League, and that is a very important lesson, for everyone.

Ten years ago the JDL was just another AIPAC, to me. The Jewish Defense League, at that time, had not been formally identified by the FBI as a terrorist organization.

It was not until after the JDL tried, and failed, to bomb a California congressman, a few years later, that the Jewish Defense League came to be listed as a terrorist organization, leading to the imprisonment, and mysterious death [or was it? - there are rumors to the contrary] of the leader, Irving Rubin, while in prison. But, I digress. Remember: Google.

It might be easier to assimilate this concept if you think of it as yet another NGO, or Non-Governmental Organization. After all, GreenPeace organizes to achieve political ends, across international boundaries - why shouldn't those with stronger motivations, better funding and fewer scruples do the same?

Regrettably, Robert Miner - founder of Oracle Corporation and VP of Networking - died, from an exotic form of cancer ... in 1994, just a few months after the complaint, describing the events at Oracle Corporation, had first been filed with the DFEH. That is, the complaint was filed on July 13th, 1994 ... and, four months later, Bob Miner was dead, of cancer.

It's not clear if his death would make answering these questions harder ... or easier ... although the rareness of the form of cancer that killed Bob Miner, not to mention the date of its first diagnosis, may cast some light on the improbability of Robert Miner's passing.

Larry Ellison has been quoted in the press as saying that Bob Miner's death did not need to happen, if I recall correctly; food for much thought, there.

In San Francisco newspapers there was a furor over the discovery that the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, had been purchasing the contents of the San Francisco Police Department's political surveillance databases.

I suspect a lot of important questions in this case were never asked.

For instance:

• What operating system(s) were in use at the San Francisco office of the ADL?
• Which database server(s) were in use at the San Francisco office of the ADL?
• Was the ADL using Oracle ... Sybase ... or Microsoft SQL Server?
• Did the ADL have technical support contracts? Who paid for them? How?
• If not, was the ADL's technical support donated; and, by who?
• If the server was in another state, didn't this cross state lines?
• Does the ADL back up its data and if so, how?
• Does the ADL possess multiple dtabase servers?
• If they have multiple database servers, do they use database replication?
• What guarantees have been offered that the data was not distributed elsewhere?
• What safeguards exist to protect this data from having been shared, or copied?
  (After all, it's trivial to copy backup tapes.)

Personally, I suspect there's a lot more information, waiting to be exposed.

One of the people that the Anti-Defamation League had tagged as anti-Semitic was the wife of Paul 'Pete' McCloskey - a military veteran, a lawyer practicing in Redwood City, California, and a former United States Representative, elected to Congress - apparently as a result of her opposition to Israeli apartheid - which was, it seems, interpreted as support for the Palestinian cause, hence, opposition to Israel.

Mr. McCloskey represented his wife in a defamation suit against the ADL, and, after ten years, prevailed; not monetarily, no, the rewards barely covered his time and expenses, but he did succeed in establishing the astonishing fact that the judge hearing his case against the ADL, in Los Angeles, was actually the chairman of the Los Angeles branch of the Anti-Defamation League ... and had refused to excuse himself from hearing a case involving what was an obvious conflict of interest.

The exact relationship between the JDL and the ADL is largely undocumented ... but I believe that it would be fair to infer that one exists.

It would be easy to dismiss my conclusions ... but in order to do so, you will have to ignore the fact that the International Jewish Peace Union agrees with my analysis.

It was perhaps a year later, not too long after Steve Zoppi left for Adobe Systems, and our department was without oversight, that I was accused, by a female coworker - Betsy Guala - of sexually harassing her ... via electronic mail.

To make a long story short (the details are readily available in the complaint I filed with the California DFEH), while Oracle Corporation's Human Resources Department moved quickly to interview me, they refused to provide any resolution to the accusations, even going so far as to say that there was nothing in writing; apparently, the Manager of Human Resources - Michael Satterwhite - had not asked to see the offensive electronic mails, and never, apparently, demanded them from Betsy Guala, the young woman making the allegations.

(Here we see the majestic rule of law at work, within Oracle Corporation; beautiful, ain't it?)

While no resolution was provided - no, it was deliberately withheld - over a period of three or four months, people were free to gossip - and, from all indications, they did. Whatever peace of mind I might have had was constantly being undermined by my coworkers' relations with me, which were strained.

However, in subsequent legal proceedings, Oracle denied I had ever been accused of sexual harassment - and challenged me to prove otherwise.

It seems reasonable to ask: if this is true, would it be fair to characterize the entire proceeding at Oracle - carried out by Oracle management - as a fraudulent one, and if so, would California Civil Code, Sections 3294(b) and (c) apply?

(b) ... With respect to a corporate employer, the advance knowledge and conscious disregard, authorization, ratification or act of oppression, fraud, or malice must be on the part of an officer, director, or managing agent of the corporation.

(c) As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) "Malice" means conduct which is intended by the defendant to cause injury to the plaintiff or despicable conduct which is carried on by the defendant with a willful and conscious disregard of the rights or safety of others.
(2) "Oppression" means despicable conduct that subjects a person to cruel and unjust hardship in conscious disregard of that person's rights.
(3) "Fraud" means an intentional misrepresentation, deceit, or concealment of a material fact known to the defendant with the intention on the part of the defendant of thereby depriving a person of property or legal rights or otherwise causing injury.

While I was enduring this compelled medical leave - wondering if this would end up in a lawsuit (about which topic, at the time, I knew nothing) my elderly stepfather - Leon Edward Salanave - fell in front of a truck, one morning, as he was walking across Geary Street, here in San Francisco ... and was dramatically hurled through the air, and against a lamp post ... eventually dying, after three days of intensive care.

As a member of Oracle's Emergency Response Team (ERT), I received training in CPR, and firefighting, but none of it prepared me for Leon's many injuries.

It's instructive to itemize the wounds, just to get a feel for the energy involved in this particular pedestrian accident.

• One leg had been amputated, because of a gangrene infection.
• His cranium was cracked in several places.
• He was, of course, in a coma.
• He had a large number of other fractures, breaks, and contusions.
• And he was covered with bloody bandages, every inch of him battered, bruised, bleeding and swollen to twice his normal size.

Is there a pattern here? It's hard to say. However, it is inarguable that, if we apply Occam's Razor - The simplest explanation is probably the right explanation - to this sequence of events, we are left with the uncomfortable conclusion that the simplest explanation is that these events are connected, and that while it is not impossible that these events just happened ... that it is statistically improbable.

The fact is that it is highly improbable that all three of these events just happened, independently of one another. Not impossible - but unlikely.

And, let's face it - employees of the Oracle Corporation certainly knew where my family lived ... interested individuals had everything they needed, in my Human Resources file. Emergency contact names, addresses, telephone numbers - a carefully prepared list of who I cared about, and who cared about me.

While I was holding my stepfather's hand, and feeling his pulse fade ... my brother, Thomas Childers, was hard at work, for Oracle Corporation.

Indeed, throughout the entire proceeding, I was struck by how complacent the San Mateo Superior Court was; although I had to admit that the filings of the Oracle Corporation's Legal Department, as well as their counsel - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, of San Francisco - were very impressive, with tables of contents and indexes that made even the most specious lines of reasoning seem very well thought out, indeed.

For instance, in hearings, the Oracle Corporation's legal team had the chutzpah to deny that I had ever been accused of sexual harassment, and challenged me to prove otherwise.

Of course, there was nothing in writing, as Michael Satterwhite had indicated to me, verbally. There was no testimony from Michael Satterwhite; he had left town for a vacation just before he had been subpoenad.

When a junior member of the legal staff at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison failed to immediately achieve a dismissal of the case - a young man by the name of John Scalia (reputedly related to Justice Antonin Scalia, of the United States Supreme Court) - he was mercilessly dismissed.

And so Oracle prevailed ... and the case was dismissed, before a trial had even occurred.