Federal Judge Shames Attorneys For Phone Use During Tech Trial

Put those phones away, lest you anger this judge.

Please turn your phones off. We don’t want an angry judge.

— Courtroom deputy Martha Parker-Brown, cautioning those in the gallery of Judge Lucy Koh’s courtroom during the latest Apple v. Samsung patent trial. Judge Koh has previously threatened to take attorneys’ and tech executives’ phones away from them, and shamed others by making them stand up if their phones were turned on and started ringing.

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