According to law professor Eric Posner, “chutzpah” never appeared in a U.S. court decision until the 1970s, but judges have since adopted the term enthusiastically. It could get another workout in the coming weeks, when U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis in Tyler, Texas, considers the latest brief filed in LBDS Holding Company’s rollercoaster of a case against the medical imaging company ISOL Technology Inc.
LBDS, you may recall, is the tiny software company that was accused of falsifying evidence just weeks after winning a $25 million verdict in a trade secrets case against ISOL earlier this year. In a motion filed on Friday, LBDS openly admitted to using faked evidence to support its bid for damages at trial—but urged Davis to uphold the verdict anyway.
