Tex: "Sh, regardless of the rules you think should be enforced and whether or not feeders have to follow the same rules, as you always add, there is a federal law that was passed by Congress and signed by the president".
That law was tested in court and what you consider "market manipulation", which was ONE PACKER dropping their price to reflect previous purchases, was proven not to be market manipulation. Judge Strom's ruling trumped the jury's decision. The appeals court supported Judge Strom's decision. The Supreme Court upheld the appeals court's decision.
For you to believe that all those judges were wrong, or bought off, or whatever other baseless conspiracy theory you can come up with only proves your desperation to blame.
Had this case been tried in Nebraska, Iowa, or Kansas, where people understand cattle marketing arrangements, the jury would have understood just as previous juries did that didn't buy the conspiracy theory either.
YOU LOST, GET OVER IT!!!!
Tex: "The meat packers are prohibited from doing certain things and there are not any excuses listed in the law."
Why would you consider facts that I have presented, that you cannot refute, as "excuses"?
The fact is, there was not just one market for fat cattle.
The fact is, feeders asked for grid pricing.
The fact is, you cannot blame one factor for a drop in the price of fat cattle without isolating all the factors that play on the market.
EXCUSES?? Hardly! Just you inability to back your position and refute anything I have stated.
Tex: "It is up to juries to determine if the facts in the case break the law, not federal judges."
It is up to judges to make sure the jury understands the law. Jurors did not study law, judges do. Judges that get it wrong are held accountable by the appeals court judges to make sure that the jury wasn't right. The appeals court judges are then held accountable by supreme court judges.
YOU LOST 3 TIMES, GET OVER IT!!!!
Tex: "In essence, these federal judges have turned the Packers and Stockyards Act from being a law that prohibits known market manipulating acts from occurring and these federal judges have turned it into a law protecting meat packers who collude to the benefit of meat packers over their suppliers."
ONE PACKER dropping their price in the cash market to reflect purchases made through grid pricing and other arrangements is not "known market manipulation", period.
Tex: "Your arguments are fine for 3rd grade, but they don't come close to being refined enough address the issues of market control and how market power can use that power to gain barriers of entry for itself and its other already established packers."
They are simply common sense supply and demand market fundamentals that you cannot refute supported by Judge Strom, supported by the appeals court judges, and supported by the supreme court. I suppose all of them have third grade mentality too huh?
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Tex: "If you want to engage in a real discussion, I would be willing to engage, but if you are going to be stuck in the 3rd grade mentality, go see if you can re enroll in your local elementary school under some kind of "slow" program the liberals seem to keep coming up with."
You don't have anything to engage with.
~SH~