SH, Does the captive supply set up a Nash equilibrium and that Azzam already admitted (proof you asked for) a negative correlation between captive supply and price?
Did the cattlemen prove to 12 jurors that they were paid less for their cattle for equivilent quality?
Was there market power, price leadership and price signaling?
All of those were parts of the elements of the case that had to be made. The appellate decision conceded the main element, the negative correlation. No evidence was quoted in the appellate decisions that denied those points, only judgements by the judges. Why did they have jurors anyway? You seem to want judges to decide everything instead of 12 jurors. That is far worse than the "socialism" you throw out. It is FASCISM. Fascism is okay if you are the party in charge by your reasoning; it just doesn't work for a free society.
Pickett didn't lose on the merits of the case, they were just ignored by the appellate judges. Show me where the merits were in the briefs.
Did the cattlemen prove to 12 jurors that they were paid less for their cattle for equivilent quality?
Was there market power, price leadership and price signaling?
All of those were parts of the elements of the case that had to be made. The appellate decision conceded the main element, the negative correlation. No evidence was quoted in the appellate decisions that denied those points, only judgements by the judges. Why did they have jurors anyway? You seem to want judges to decide everything instead of 12 jurors. That is far worse than the "socialism" you throw out. It is FASCISM. Fascism is okay if you are the party in charge by your reasoning; it just doesn't work for a free society.
Cash cattle prices are driven by normal supply and demand factors within the market. Always have been, always will be. None of your bogus market manipulation conspiracy theories will change that. Pickett lost becasue they couldn't prove market manipulation and neither can you.
Pickett didn't lose on the merits of the case, they were just ignored by the appellate judges. Show me where the merits were in the briefs.