A good opinion, as good as any. That's all we can have now while waiting, opinions...well, and chips n dip, pizza, tofu, rice cakes, chocolate cake, freeze dried grasshoppers...
In my opinion, the big corporate types never seem to tremble as they always are in the 'know'. When it comes to money it really is nothing but a game. Win. Lose. Get rich. Get poor. And almost without exception, the investor is always the 'bunny', the animal most likely to get slaughtered and eaten. Those rare moments where shareholders prosper, that's just gravy.
As for the mediation, does anyone know if it was court ordered? Suggested by a judge? If court ordered then it had to be. If suggested, that's almost the same as, 'it had to be'. I don't know the answer but suspect mediation was advised by the GERS legal team as the first avenue of attack.
"Yur honor, I represent GERS and reguest a going ta court."
"Did ya all try to work it out first, maybe try wrassling where the winner gets ta decide what be fair?"
"Yes sir/ma'am. My clients did a set a spell n we tried hard to be all civil. Even bent over backwards a trying. No luck yur honor. They be all a hostile n such."
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(ICM) "NO your honor. We have adhered to the utmost integrity of legal precedence. Blah, blah, blah..."
"You a sit yur ass down there. Is it true you did not wanna wrassle?"
"What does wrestling have to do with the legalities of this case your honor?"
"Well, mr/mrs uppity. This here be my court and I be a judging uppity companies that likes to waste my time when the obvious shuda been settled amiably before a wasting my time."
"We have legal standing your honor. Case files. Judgements..."
"N Ihave this here wooden gavel that I a gonna beat yur ass if'n you don't sit down."
(there is much rustling in the courtroom. the judge continues.)
"A seeing how this all has come down to this, me n my fellow judges gonna start this case in 3, 2, 1... Okay. We's all decided. You uppity companies shuda made nice and settled so we's all decided for ya all."
"But, but, but...'
'You just a park your butt down n listen..."
(GERS legal team laughing, not so much at the judge giving a tongue lashing to the ICM legal team, but because cousin Cecil's pet pig got loose in the court room)
"You there. That be yur pig?"
"Yes sir/ma'am. It be my favorite."
"Well, kindly get control of it."
"Okay yur honor."
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"Anyways as I was a saying (squeal! oink oink)... Bailiff, kindaly remove that pig fur I bbq it."
"Anyways, we the court decided ICM a gonna pay $ten billion dollars or a go ta jail fur ever."
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Yes we all have opinion and I have my imagination to get me through all the waiting in life. Good luck to all.
