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ggmyesterday at 11:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

The Judges appear to have responded to something specific. If it was made-up, they would have thrown the case out harder and sanctioned whoever submitted false evidence. So I assume somebody with an ability to legally bind intel into the right form was persuaded to say something.


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duskwuffyesterday at 11:36 PM

Perhaps the objection started out with something fundamentally irrational or opinion-based, and someone was ordered to "reverse-engineer" an objection out of that which wasn't trivially refutable - e.g. "the noise from the turbines will keep our submarine sonar from working" or "reports say that human smugglers are hiding aboard the windmills" or whatever.

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maxericksonyesterday at 11:24 PM

In the quote in the article there, the one judge responds to something specific by calling it "irrational".