(Written by kencraw)

Well, so much for the “the ruling will likely be out early” thoughts as Judge Miller has announced that the ruling will be announced on the deadline for her to issue a ruling, Wednesday June 18th. What the ruling will say… that’s still anyone’s guess. I’ve heard some say that her taking so long to deliberate means it must be good for us, because she couldn’t have anything that was a red-flag for her that would have caused her to rule against us quickly. Personally, I take the opposite approach to think that she must have found the case compelling enough that she had to think about it for an extended period of time. The likelihood that in all of that thinking at least one of the claims made by the prosecution wasn’t good enough to slow the project seems small to me.

So count me in the pessimist crowd on this one.

In any case, we’ll see on Wednesday.