Robert Jones, an attorney at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray, who is representing Romney in this matter told TIME in a statement, “This is a decades-old divorce case in which Mitt Romney provided testimony as to the value of a company. He has no objection to letting the public see that testimony.”
That’s probably game over right there. If the lawyers say, “Hey, great if the public knows, who cares?” There is definitely no there there. If all he was doing was saying in court that Staples was worth X, they aren’t even going to be able to hurt him with it if they cobble up some data “proving” Staples was worth more, because they’ll have to get off in the weeds with numbers that make Mitt’s 59 point economic plan look like a quick read.