Opposing Counsel Disqualified In Sony Scam Case

By Christopher Norton

Law360, New York (November 20, 2009, 6:31 PM ET) -- Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. has won a bid to disqualify its opponent’s counsel in a suit alleging Sony and its attorneys ran a scam on the plaintiff in a patent dispute over vibrating video game controllers, due to the plaintiff attorney’s previous representation of Sony in related litigation.

Magistrate Judge Douglas E. Arpert in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on Friday agreed that Greg M. Diehl of Diehl Servilla LLC should be disqualified, and gave plaintiffs Craig Thorner and his...
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