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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ORACLE AMERICA, INC.,

Plaintiff,

 v.

 GOOGLE INC.,

Defendant. /

No. C 10-03561 WHA

JURY SELECTION PLAN

1. Venire will be sworn and roll taken in the courtroom. 

2. Case will be called and counsel will make appearances and introduce their tables.

3. Judge will welcome venire, give preliminary instructions, and excuse the sick. 

4. Each side will make a ten-minute mini-opening, pre-cleared with the other side

(including slides).

5. We will pass out a two-page questionnaire (appended hereto) and allow fifteen

minutes to complete. The venire will hold onto their completed questionnaires. 

6. Names will be called by clerk to fill in the jury box (plus two seats), a total of

sixteen. As they are called forward, the venirepersons will show their questionnaire to the

judge and if they have answered “yes” as to strong opinions on questions 9(d) or 9(e), then they

will be diverted to the end of the venire list (in same sequence as called) to be available later as

potential jurors but will not, at least yet, be seated in the jury box. 

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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7. Once sixteen are seated in the jury box, their sixteen questionnaires will be

copied and given to counsel.

8. The sixteen will be questioned. Hardship issues will be first considered. The

judge will conduct the initial voir dire but counsel shall each have forty minutes to examine,

subject to enlargement for good cause. 

9. As prospective jurors are excused for cause or hardship, the same diversion

criteria as above will be used to pass those with strong opinions to the end of the list. Those

seated will have their questionnaires handed to counsel.

10. When all sixteen are passed for cause (or all challenges for cause overruled),

counsel shall exercise their peremptory challenges. 

11. The remaining ten will be sworn and the rest of the venire excused.

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The main point of this diversion procedure (in Paragraphs 6 and 9 above) is to save time

by avoiding the repeated and likely futile exercise of one side or the other trying to rehabilitate

“biased” venirepersons, at least until we run out of presumptively “unbiased” candidates. The

judge expects to summon a large enough venire to avoid the need to examine any “biased”

venireperson but we cannot be sure of the right number in advance. Neither side will know

which way they are biased, only that they are biased. 

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By NOON ON APRIL 18, any objection to this procedure must be submitted in writing.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 11, 2016. WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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