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Pechman ruled that the SuperSonics didn't make a good-faith effort to resolve the document dispute and failed to abide by an agreed-upon rule requiring 10 days to pass before challenging the confidentiality of documents.
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I have to say this part sucks big time. Since one of the major points of issue here is "good faith efforts on the part of the Sonics" you would like to keep that language used by the Judge out of everything you do. If she says it once she can say it again. The attorneys for the Sonics should be going out of the way to be as accommodating as possible and let the City and Ballmer be the obstructionist. They had the perfect chance to do this with the "FAO" requirement from the Ballmer group’s evidence but the Sonics seemed to have missed an opportunity to show just how uncooperative the City of Seattle has been.
Finally, if you agreed to a 10 day waiting period why would you try and file a motion before the 10 days was up? That seems kind of amateur. If you are going to file early then you need to put in your motion why think the 10 days waiting period will hurt your case. This is the first time in the whole case that I have been discouraged.