I don't they they had any control of this. This was already announced previously. This was uploaded through the courts and done by Mr. Shady himself, Sayid (Hubai's lawyer).
This will finally allow Madison to cancel the shares officially.
As far as I can tell this wasn't an announcement or PR released by the company, on Christmas Eve. Today is a business day according to this 'world' and the process just happened to fall on the 24th. This should allow for N8 and all kinds of goodies, IMO