Adam, Kevin, and Sean, thank you for filling some gaping holes in my financial and legal training. Quite a few things with aD have become apparent and feasible...
Kevin, I know that it was a settlement, not a ruling, but I did not know whether it was precipitated by a ruling. There are some people in this forum who were following the court documents closely; I was hoping to hear from them. Presumably court rulings are public; but you might want to check -- building codes are state & municipal law, therefore public documents, right? Nope. They are copyrighted by the contracter lobbyist groups that wrote them. There was a case on this recently (someone posted the building codes on the web), and the judge ruled that the law could be, and was, copyrighted. That, and counting the number of documents of evidence that were sealed at recent EFF-sponsored trials I've been following, have not assured me that the public will be told of any and all legal decisions....
