This Mordicai, do not underestimate. In my view, the UWs are trapped. They can risk gambling on a Hearing that may not happen while gambling on an outcome where they are legally the underdog. Nothing says the Appeals court cannot just issue an opinion at anytime.
If I were handicapping this, the UWs have already won by being placed in class 19 (worst case w/consensual agree is class 22) and to seal this victory without being concerned with the outcome, even if they already think they know the outcome (people have been wrong twice about so-called known outcomes), is to guarantee an outcome is to have a consensual agreement which would be effective immediately upon court signature.
To me, anything other than a consensual agreement is to take a 100% win gambling on something better while taking a chance at losing 100%. I do not take these people as fools, so I say a consensual agreement will ultimately happen between Alice and the UWs.