The reason I hope they comply immediately has nothing to do with my hope for mercy on their behalf. 
I want folks who are suffering due to the De®vaes' C&D letters to stop suffering immediately. If this is drawn into a legal battle, the Dervaeses will be forced (even if it's a self-imposed force) to be even more stubborn about hurting the urban homesteading movement and the people involved. Things will become darker before they become brighter if we go down that path.
If they refuse to comply, then yeah, I hope they are sued into oblivion as well. I hope they lose everything they've worked for, and that their business suffers mortal wounds (if it hasn't already).
The only issue I have going forward is that when you go to war, there is collateral damage. I'm not in the path, and won't be a part of that collateral damage, but I know folks who are and who will be. I don't want anybody else's business to suffer any more than it already has due to these jerks waving their smelly asses in the air.
Consider my hope for mercy as thus:
This is just me, sitting on my mount, at the top of a hill, watching the enemy charge when they're obviously outnumbered and do not have the high ground. I look out on the field and I see friends and family and those I've fought with and worked for for the last two years, and I know that some of them (not many, but even one is too many) will suffer and ultimately die. So I'm sitting here staring at the enemy, chanting, "turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around. Damn you, why don't you retreat?"
I hate destruction. I hate war. I'll destroy something, or participate in war, if I see it as an absolute necessity, but it's never my aim, and I do not take pride in it any more than a respectful hunter would take pride in putting down a mad dog who has hunted with him in the past. It's a distasteful thing, regardless of how necessary it is for the protection of the rest of our pack and for our own protection as well.
