The console dads are fighting again.
It's not quite harassment in the way you or I would understand it: Microsoft hasn't been spamming Sony with abusive texts. But as part of the lengthy and ongoing litigation between the two companies over the Activision acquisition, the Xbox maker has requested access to all sorts of normally-private internal Sony documents to help it make its case.
Sony pointed out that"Even in employment cases courts require a specific showing of relevance before requiring production of personnel files," which it reckons Microsoft hasn't done. It added that the litigation over Activision isn't even an employment case anyway, so where does Microsoft get off subpoenaing documents that it"speculates [...
The notion of one megacorp 'harassing' another—as if we were discussing people with fears and feelings and not titanic, globe-spanning empires—sounds faintly absurd to me, but Sony's argument convinced the judge. Chief administrative law judge D. Michael Chappell said Sony had"demonstrated good cause for the requested relief" and gave a proposed order that document request 13, which is the one pertaining to executive performance reviews, be quashed.
In the same section, Chappell also ordered that Microsoft limited itself to requesting documents from between January 1, 2019 and January 17, 2023, and specifically that its subpoena be limited to documents from a select few executives, among which are familiar names like Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst.
It feels like the corporations involved are almost as tired of this process dragging out as the general public at this point. If it's not Sony mithering about"harassment," it's
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