Is there a reason not to take TFA at it's word, which says that the litigation in progress (for which expert testimony was requested) does not relate to the res

Is there a reason not to take TFA at it's word, which says that the litigation in progress (for which expert testimony was requested) does not relate to the research those experts were conducting through agreements signed with CDE? The whole problem here is that as a soon as a researcher signs the contract, they are barred from participating in any litigation against the department even if it doesn't involve the private data they were working with. So you have a large population of experts removed from the pool, because all the experts are likely to be involved in some type of research.