[Community-Discuss] Supreme Court Order in Relation to Cloud Innovation v AFRINIC

[Owen DeLong]

> On Jul 15, 2021, at 13:33 , Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> 
> In message <337009E4-C17E-4215-82BD-D9F753831613 at delong.com>, 
> Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> 
>> The "sub judice" rule was temporarily not in effect
>> while the case was dismissed
>> until such time as the appeal was accepted. This created a window during 
>> which we could disclose certain factual information.
>> 
>> The "sub judice" rule only applies while there is an
>> active case that is actually "sub judice" (which means
>> "under the consideration of the court" basically).
>> When AFRINIC succeeded in getting the case dismissed, it stopped being
>> "sub judice" until such time as the judge ruled to
>> reinstate the injunction pending
>> the appeal.
> 
> That's a very interesting legal theory Owen.
> 
> May I quote you?

That was my understanding from what the lawyers said to us.

If I’m wrong, I guess I’ll have to apologize to the Mauritian courts.

Owen