On "unwritten precedent" (that used to be written, but is now
buried in precedent somewhere) is that, unless there is a good
reason not to do so, we tend to judge Truth or Falsity of CFJs
based on the facts at the time the CFJ was called (i.e. ignoring
changes that happened between the calling and the judging).

Sometimes it's ok to punt (e.g. "it's so complicated and self-
ratification has sorted it out after-the-fact anyway, so I
DISMISS the case as being beyond a reasonable effort to figure
out what happened before self-ratification").  But that logic
generally doesn't extend to True/False findings.



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