That is just normal. They have to say what they have to say. Its part of the legal process. If they skip it then BFL can say they did not get due process and all that.
Exactly right. In truth, none of us would want a legal system where a judge could permanently destroy a private business in a hearing, even if presented with an apparently incontestable preponderance of evidence. And, from the outside at least, it doesn't look like FTC had that today in any event.