RE:Why the continued stall? Agreed. The only thing that the BJ/JRL/JGT coalition accomplishes by this is another flush down the toilet of any hint of their credibility. Not that they had any in the first place. Surely the Chilean judiciary will view this in a negative way, particularly given the history of the plaintiffs.
Good luck getting Thornton to depose, and even if they do, it'll probably backfire on them anyway. We all know that JRL has no titles... and has never had any titles... to anything that constitutes Pascua Lama.