Court tosses out Oracle's bid to disqualify expert in Java case

A court in California has declined Oracle's bid to disqualify an expert in its copyright dispute with Google over the use of Java code in the Android mobile operating system.James Kearl of Brigham Young University was asked by District Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to serve on the case and guide the court on damages, in the event of a liability being found.But Oracle questioned Kearl's neutrality, charging that he had previously appeared f