Another case bites the dust...

...thanks to settlement that is. This is the second time this has happened in as many weeks. While that is all well and good for the argument promoting efficiency of courts and the legal system, it creates, based on the timing of the assignment, a lot of extra work for a clerk. What can you do? The short answer is: Not too much. Basically, I can only hang onto the research and hope that a similar issue is appealed sometime in the next year (or two years if I decide to take a stab at going to the US Supreme Court, which at this point seems rather unlikely). I can only hope that another clerk reads this and comments with commiserating sympathy (although both unlikely and unnecessary).