November 5, 2007: Jury Selection - 9:00 a.m. in Marshall, Texas. While trial dates are normally not firm, Patriot's counsel would expect those claims that proceed to trial to do so by the end of the year.
Was a jury selected on Nov 5th? The stay occurred. If settle talks fizzled for some reason, they jury selection would have to be scheduled for sometime before the trial. Don't forget the Holidays are here. This just reenforces for me that the intent of the stay was based on a pretty solid settlement agreement.
This has been probably a dead horse, so forgive me if I just now caught on,