Miami, Fl -- June 17, 2008 -- On a 6 year old lawsuit against Motorola (NYSE: MOT), SPS Technologies, a Florida Corporation, is seeking $10 billion compensatory damages and exemplary damages totaling $30 billion.

Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld recently announced that sanctions will be levied against Motorola, in the $10 billion lawsuit that SPS Technologies filed against Motorola.  Sanctions were imposed in response to a motion filed by Motorola asking for the court to be stripped of its jurisdiction.  Judge Streitfeld ruled that Motorola’s motion was frivolous and was filed in bad faith.

This is not the first time that sanctions have been levied against Motorola.  Judge Leroy Moe, who presided over the first trial, fined Motorola $23 million in attorney’s fees and costs due to Motorola’s egregious misconduct during trial.  Judge Moe ruled during a post-trial hearing that “sanctions are in order against Motorola” for the “intentional, deliberate, blatant, willful and contumacious disregard of the rule of sequestration of witnesses.”  Judge Moe went on to say that Motorola’s violation, without question, “affected the outcome of the case and, therefore, was very prejudicial to the plaintiffs.”  “… But there is no question that it was done for tactical purposes and solely for the purpose of winning at all costs,” continued Moe.

The first trial lasted over two-months and the jury could not agree on a verdict after days of deliberations.  The re-trial is scheduled to begin Monday, July 28, 2008 in front of Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld in the complex litigation division in Broward County.

SPS alleges that Motorola stole SPS’ idea for a server-based GPS data management technology, which led to Motorola’s present GPS tracking, navigation and concierge systems, which is also licensed to major auto industries, cellular companies and related systems.
 
“Our client SPS is defending what belongs to them. Motorola duped our client into believing that the technology SPS developed between 1996 and 1999 was going to be marketed world-wide via a joint venture in which SPS and Motorola were to participate. SPS maintains that Motorola instead stole the technology from SPS and seeded SPS’ technology into other products and secured licenses to many companies including, but not limited to GM – Onstar.  The trial date is in July and we are more than ready,” said Willie Gary, lead attorney for SPS.

Gary and his legal team are no strangers to seeking justice. Gary is perhaps best known as a trial lawyer for his half billion-dollar verdict against Canadian corporate giant, the Loewen Group in 1995. Gary and his team also won a $240 million verdict against Walt Disney Corporation for their clients who alleged that Disney stole their idea for a sports theme park. Additionally, Gary was awarded $18.28 million against the media conglomerate Gannett Company for the false portrayal of his clients in a series of newspaper articles. In 2001, a jury awarded Gary a $139.6 million verdict for the Maris Distributing Company against Anheuser-Busch.

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