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Them, so, in other words, there are thousands and thousands of cases for which people want the supreme court to take a look at them and in which they could say yes but they take a small fraction of those, and some of the cases that they are focused on are things which are called a circuit split which is actually a split amongst the courts of the country and they need to resolve that split on a particular issue. in other words, if you're in alabama, the federal courts are saying one thing whereas if you're in tennessee they say something else. like that, would be a problem, so they will -- they...
Constitutional issue but on the other hand we don't have a circuit split where different courts are deciding the issue differently and if you look at the decisions, they're air tight. i don't they the supreme court will say we need to come in and fix that. >> i think it was a 68-page opinion, i think it was unanimous across all three -- >> it was. >> -- their judges. so if the court, if the supreme court did intervene and grant cert and take this up, what would that tell you about a court that john roberts keeping says is not political, is not political, is not political. >> i have to tell you...