Drafting the correction found a second falsehood in the same sentence. 'PENDING-82, still
open' — its own Awaiting line reads INSTALLED AND IN USE. CLOSED 2026-08-08. Seventeen days.
How it got in is a finding about an instrument, not an excuse: PENDING-82 sits in the wake
digest's OPEN AUTHORIZATION ITEMS list, which is where I read it. Census afterwards: 1 item
of 105 declares itself closed in its own Awaiting line while the open list still carries
it. Four others are partially discharged and genuinely ambiguous — PENDING-146's subject,
not this defect. One confirmed instance, and the item says so at that strength, because 'the
open list is unreliable' from n=1 would be this item repeating its own error in the other
direction.
The draft AMENDS AND JOINS rather than replaces, and says so at the top: register integrity
treats an amendment overwriting its own record as a defect, earned when REVIEWED-87 was
replaced by its own amendment and nothing detected it.
The decision is untouched. Option 1 stands, PENDING-159 stays closed, option 3 stays closed
on the jurist's better ground. What changes is that the ruling now says something true
about why.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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