If an Appellate Body Report Falls in the Woods ...
If an Appellate Body report falls in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it have any precedential value? I ask because the Appellate Body issued a report yesterday, and no one seemed to notice. Usually, there is at least some brief reporting by Reuters and other news services, a press release by the winning government, etc., but I've seen nothing about this case. It's true that the report was very short -- about 15 pages of findings. But it does have some actual reasoning, on an interesting issue. And it involves U.S. anti-dumping matters, which are always controversial. I suppose it was a bit technical, and the issue is kind of systemic in nature, but nevertheless I thought I'd hear something about it!