RE: very unfortunate the judge has decided this
Re: "Clearly there's more to this "frivolous" lawsuit than HBK led us to believe" - Not necessarily.
Judges have areas of expertise - commercial, criminal, family etc. However, the area of expertise is not necessarily taken into consideraton when a judge is assigned to a particulat court case.
Judges are notorious for hating one thing - an upper court reversing their original judgement.
Therefore, this may simply be a judge who feels that they are not fully competent to render a summary verdict on a commercial dispute such as this.
Unfortunate, nevertheless.
BWT may have some observations on this process..