BBC:

Lawyers for Apple have raised a last-minute challenge saying new evidence suggested that the two women named as plaintiffs may not have purchased iPod models covered by the lawsuit.

The lawsuit covers iPods purchased between September 2006 and March 2009.

And:

But after lead plaintiff Marianna Rosen testified on Wednesday, Apple lawyers checked the serial number on her iPod Touch and found it was purchased in July 2009.

The other main plaintiff, Melanie Wilson, also bough iPods outside the relevant timeframe, they indicated.

“I am concerned that I don’t have a plaintiff. That’s a problem,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said at the end of the trial’s third day of testimony in Oakland, California.

Are you kidding me? What a show of ineptitude, as well as an incredible waste of time and money. If this wasn’t such a travesty, it’d be comedic.

Question is, will they be able to regroup with different plaintiffs who do have iPods bought at the right time?