>initial ruling cited emergency lending to justify banning all digital lending and the case was only brought up due to it as well. The ruling's only mention of

>initial ruling cited emergency lending to justify banning all digital lending and the case was only brought up due to it as well. The ruling's only mention of the emergency lending was that it was illegal as CDL was illegal. There's also a fair amount of reason to suspect the publishers were preparing for the lawsuit far before the emergency lending. They were publishing stories about it and forming a petition against it in 2019, following years of criticizing it.