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Excellent point. My "pants down" joke, however, shall remain!

Can you explain the joke?

Your comment was unexpected, and that actually made it fun. There's a theory about humor that it exists to expose wrong assumptions in a harmless way.

The lawyer can pull down the defendants' pants and point and laugh, then tell Waymo how funny it was.

More: It's usually only outside counsel who gets to see that kind of stuff. Even corporate attorneys don't.

If Uber turns out to be innocent as they claim, can they then turn around and sue Waymo? The amount of information Waymo has gotten on a competitor through discovery seems highly prejudicial.