Basa
The important word here was 'preliminary'.
I have a feeling the judge who saw you knows that the cases will not be heard until January I would have thought. That is if the cases are heard at all. I would not be surprised if there was some internal pressure for the cases to be derailed, if they can do this. Pure supposition on my part, perhaps I read too many conspiracy theory stories. It is just that I am thinking that if the tide is in favour of the debtors, the people that hold the power must know this and want to keep the water as muddy as possible.
Huckster