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to trial. Witnesses that should have been called were not
called.
At the end of the second day of trial, petitioners brought
into the courtroom 22 dirty, worn-out, mildewy boxes that
allegedly contained records and documents relating to
petitioners' businesses that petitioners speculated, if organized
and examined, would support petitioners' entitlement to many of
the items at issue in this case. These documents, however, were
not organized. The documents were not presented or offered into
evidence in an organized manner that related to the specific
issues in the case. Petitioners' attorney had known about the
documents for at least 2 or 3 weeks before trial, and probably
for much longer, but had not disclosed the existence thereof to
respondent's counsel nor to the Court, nor were the documents
made available to respondent as required under our Rules and
pretrial order. Petitioners and their attorney could not
describe or explain in any specific, coherent, or meaningful
manner the nature of the documents in the boxes, the relationship
of the documents to the issues in the case, nor what the
documents allegedly proved with regard to the issues in the case.
After trial, the Court held the record open for a period of
time to allow petitioners to organize the documents in the 22
boxes, to make a presentation to respondent's representatives as
to what the contents of the boxes established with regard to the
adjustments at issue in this case, to confer with respondent
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