@marcan Based on my somewhat rudimentary knowledge of some of the weirder bits of the US legal system (also NAL): Since it never even made it to a district court, it carries about the same legal weight as a newspaper opinion column, also known as "the judge can use it as TP if they want to", but there's nothing formally stopping a judge from basing a ruling off it either, which means anyone with skin still in the game should be reading it and coming up with counter-arguments just in case.

Honestly I think their biggest mistake is that they didn't shut the hell up about the TotK leak, which was basically shooting a flare gun at a kaiju...