U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin isn’t one to mince words.
There was that time he invited lawyers in a case before him to a “kindergarten party” to get up to speed on the law, or when he mocked some other unfortunate lawyers in rhyming couplets. This week, Sparks got so fed up with a 4-year-old securities class action against drugmaker Pain Therapeutics Inc. that he ordered the plaintiffs lawyers nearly back to square one, scuttling a jury trial that was all set to begin on Tuesday.
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