Influencing Judges?

RIM ruling risks US Blackberry shutdown
By Jeffrey Hodgson

TORONTO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied a motion to stay a patent case against Research In Motion Ltd. (Toronto:RIM.TO - news) (Nasdaq:RIMM - news), bringing RIM closer to an injunction that could shut down its popular BlackBerry email service in the United States.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied RIM's motion to suspend the case pending RIM's request for a U.S. Supreme Court review.
The case goes back to 2002, when patent holding company NTP successfully sued RIM in a lower court. It won an injunction in 2003 to halt U.S. sales of the BlackBerry and shut down its service, although that ruling was stayed pending appeal.
NTP said on Friday it will ask that the injunction be confirmed. The closely held firm said the injunction would not affect BlackBerry products used by U.S. federal, state, or local governments, where the wireless email device has become increasingly popular.

Because if it did affect those government functions/employees, like say maybe judges, then THAT would be a bad thing. Unlike the affect it would have on tax-paying businesses which might use these devices.