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> Courts don't answer hypotheticals. They definitely consider future implications of their rulings.

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > They definitely consider future implications of their rulings Appeals courts, especially the Supreme Court, areaware of the orecdential effect of their rulings, and write with an eye toward providing a rule (or specifically to avoid it), but this is a trial court, and perhaps more to the point, this is a consent judgement—a settlement by the parties that the judge signs off on.Settlements don’t deal with anything beyond resolving the immediateissues between the parties.