Source: law/QA2-RESPONSE.md
# Author response to LAW QA2 — Round 3 This records changes against `qa/law-QA2.md`; it is not independent QA approval. All five revised catalogues now use the current indented LAW syntax. Statutory `text` and interpretive `rule` spans remain exact slices of the read-only IR. | QA2 finding | Change | | --- | --- | | Sherman criminal scope | The criminal claim allows the per-se and non-per-se rule-of-reason routes. Its gloss distinguishes Gypsum mens rea from knowing joinder in a per-se prosecution; the statutory prohibition is not limited to enforcement practice. | | Monsanto inference | The exclusion-of-independent-action issue is expressly conditional on circumstantial proof, outside universal claim conjunctions. | | RICO predicate coverage | The catalogue marks the remaining §1961(1) predicates as unmodeled; listed predicate children are not an exhaustive index. | | Pre-Boyle enterprise rule | Seville/Chang structure language is a dated historical note, not an operative quoted rule. Boyle's separate-element/overlapping-proof interpretation remains operative. | | Extortion attachment | NOW v. Scheidler's economic-motive passage is explicitly context-only. The unquoted Scheidler II obtaining-property test is not presented as established by that passage. | | §841 scope and quantities | The title and claim glosses limit coverage to (a)(1) and selected (b) tiers. The quantity table is expressly partial; omitted offenses and tiers are identified. | | Aiding versus conspiracy | The legacy `aiding` issue is a compatibility alias; §2 aiding and §846 conspiracy are separate cross-statute routes. `x-conspiracy-846` matches Fable's v1 CASE ID. They are not new §841 elements. | | §1983 D.C. inclusion | The D.C. clause is an inclusion element, not an exception. | | Injury versus damages | Prospective relief no longer requires `damages`. `standing-injury` is labeled a judicial standing prerequisite with only a statutory context anchor; the legacy damages issue is remedy-specific. Person/capacity and municipal-policy qualifications remain explicit. | | First Amendment anchor | Removed Olivier's unrelated Heck passage. Added exact Pesci v. Budz, 935 F.3d 1159, rule and merits-holding spans, scoped to the civil-detention speech claim and its negative outcome. This is not a universal public-employee or retaliation test. | | Title VII syntax and coverage | Converted to current LAW syntax, with exact source-pinned statute and case-rule spans. Explicit practice routes cover (a)(2), (b), (c), (d), and (l); exceptions/qualifiers cover (e)–(j), (k)(2)–(3), and (n). | | Title VII frameworks and Ricci | Qualified/pretext are inferential-framework annotations, not mandatory statutory conjuncts. Each Ricci impact block says the impact analysis is hypothetical within an intentional-discrimination defense. | | Judgment preclusion | The (n) block includes notice/opportunity, adequate representation, preserved challenges, due process, and forum text. It is not a freestanding claim or blanket preclusion rule. | The statutory cross-check used the Office of the Law Revision Counsel's [§1](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t15/s1/), [§1962](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-120/t18/s1962/), [§841](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t21/s841/), [§1983](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s1983/), and [§2000e-2](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s2000e-2/) pages. Committed quote offsets remain tied to the supplied corpus snapshot, not to web-page offsets or an assumption that present wording governed older cases. ## Data integration Fable's 60-file v1 migration is taken from origin commit `237a557`. No CASE source or quote was edited here. All 1,172 case quotations match their corpus sources, and `casedsl.py quotes-equal d01702d neov2/cases` reports zero changed quote multisets. V1 adds issue distinctions, so annotation-block counts need not equal the earlier v0 count. The database preserves effective citation role, ruling scope (including superseded opinions), party/count/theory/opinion qualifiers, fact polarity, absence, and quoted-rule tags. `instance.is_instance` is generated from applied + merits + reached holding. The report separates these instances from all other retained annotations. LAW claims, constraints, every statutory anchor, quote pointers and source hashes, glosses, and context/historical labels are stored rather than silently discarded. Validation is documented in `law/NOTES.md` and `tools/LOADER.md`. Independent legal re-review, exhaustive predicate coverage, and historical version applicability remain outside the verification claims.