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Is there time? The parties didn't begin lining up expert witnesses at the beginning of expert discovery. There's a reason these cases take years. It's not a matter of calling up a few experts and setting up an appointment for deposition for the following week or the end of the month. At least one of the experts deposed had to be rescheduled, and I recall seeing a motion by another witness who was subpoenaed. A good argument will not include a single expert's testimony; rather there will be at least a few or several. The Cisco appeal hearing is just 5 months away, and Chanbond's attorneys also have deadlines to meet in that case during the same time they're starting the discovery process over in this case if the judge allows this new theory. And costs for these witnesses will need to be paid up front. Everybody gets paid up front, which is why Chanbond suggested the defendants should pay if they have to go through the process again.