It would seem that almost everything is settled in the courts today.
People make all sorts of choices.
They have to make choices, because making choices is the largest part of living a human life. And as much as we human beings like to boast of our free will, what we don't care for very much at all is the responsibility of a free will. We would prefer that our errors and failures, and even our sins, were somebody else's fault, and not our own. And that's why the courts have become so important in modern life. The law stays the law, unless it is changed by the legislating power.