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Machiavellian said:

Ryuu96 said:

Judge to CMA: it seems dumb (I guess) to bring in someone who was not involved with the decision to come in and say they agree with it. It either has to be a panel member of the CMA with knowledge in economics or an economist within the council.

"The judge calling out the 'irrationality' of the CMA asking for new experts on their side. Judge saying just bring out the experts used on the initial decision instead of finding new experts who have to study the material in order to say the CMA did the right thing."

From the CMA arguments, you would assume that they actually did not use an expert to come to their decision because why would you need an outside expert to come to the same conclusion.  The person who came to the conclusion should be the one to defend their decision and of course the judge is using simple logic and wondering WTF is going on with the CMA.  This could really tarnish the CMA depending on how this goes and its not looking good.

Or they paraphrased a little too much the expert they used, twisting/cherry-picking their conclusion to cater to their own conclusions, and as such they might fear said experts would contradict their conclusion in a hearing.

Either way, it's really strange for the CMA to make this request. An out-of-court agreement may not be as far-fetched as it seemed upon CMA's initial conclusion release.