Object

Trial Court Judgment

Staff members C.J., Bruno, Toby, Sam, and Josh crowd the Roosevelt Room table, urgently dissecting this legal document's fallout. Its pages detail a ruling against their tuition policy, sparking rapid calculations on a $50 billion fix via an $80,000 cap and $35 billion loophole closure. They reference it repeatedly as appealable, voices rising with opportunistic energy.

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Purpose

Establishes a binding lower-court decision on policy funding, eligible for appeal or Supreme Court stay

Significance

Ignites on-the-fly policy pivot to tax-deductible college tuition, exposing staff tensions between idealism and political realism while setting up future advocacy and trades

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S4E3 · College Kids

Close the Bonus Loophole to Fund Tuition

The trial court judgment functions as the factual anchor for the team's legal/strategic moves; its existence forces talk of appeals, stays, and immediate campaign responses that create the opening for the tuition proposal to be deployed tactically.

Before: Issued by the trial court and circulated to senior staff; considered a live legal problem.

After: Acknowledged as appealable; staff set in motion plans (seeking stays, recruiting allies) while using the moment for policy angling.

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