| Long-Pending
Video Games Trial Less Likely To Happen in
SDNY With Kansas Judge Vratil
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 8 – Omar Tellez in 2015
sued OTG Interactive / Flow
Solutions LLC for illegal
downloading of video
games.
Six years
later the case is set to come
to trial in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York - with
Kansas Senior Judge Kathryn H.
Vratil pegged to preside over
the trial.
On September 1
Judge Vratil held a telephone
proceeding, and Inner City
Press covered it. Judge Vratil
explained how a trial could
work in SDNY, in lower
Manhattan or White Plains, she
said.
One side
expressed doubts about
in-person trials; the other
said it could be done.
Judge Vratil brought up the
possibility of a Zoom trial,
saying that she and her staff
had studied the protocols of
the Western District of
Washington.
She set up a
future call - citing Kansas
City time.
On October 8,
another call was held, and
Inner City Press again covered
it. While there is November 15
day, there are three cases
ahead of this one on that day,
two criminal and one civil. It
seems unlikely the trial will
happen on that day and Judge
Vratil said to go forward and
seek mediation. But if the
defendants in the other cases
settle? These are the courts
amid COVID.
The case is
Tellez v. OTG Interactive,
LLC, et al., 15-cv-8984
(Vratil / Fox)
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