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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:18AM (#42389320)
> roblem with auction procedures in this case wasn't the actual auction methodology, but the lack of notice and the difficulty of submitting a bid

Which would make sense. That's not what the article quotes as the judge's reason (nor what you've said).

The quote in the article criticises sealed bids. That's mind-blowingly wrong to the point of having substance on appeal. It's so wrong I expressed scepticism it's actually the case, scepticism based on experience evaluating bankruptcy claims.

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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by pclmulqdq on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:57PM (#42391381)
Yeah, the article is incorrect about that (like I said, sealed bids are very unusual in bankruptcy auctions, but the actual opinion cites the other stuff), and when I said that the auction procedure was farcical, I did not mean that the underlying algorithm of the auction was wrong, but that the procedures run by the auctioneer were awful.
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