SAN FRANCISCO — A $4 billion contract dispute between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. is back on track for trial after a state appeals court blasted Oracle for needlessly delaying the litigation by two years.
The Sixth District Court of Appeal ruled that a motion Oracle filed in 2013 on the eve of trial was an abuse of California’s anti-SLAPP law, which is intended to quash lawsuits that attack protected speech. Oracle’s motion was filed with no such noble purpose in mind, the justices wrote, and instead likely was a ploy to postpone the breach of contract trial. The justices wrote that they declined to assess sanctions against Oracle only to avoid additional delay.
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