[zizek23]

This is a significant misrepresentation of the issue. The judge gave multiple reasons of which fairness was only one.

The other was it encourages strategizing in future lotteries as students will select spots that are 'good trading material' rather than their first choices which would undermine the whole system.

[gowld]

How would that undermine the system? There is a lottery, that's a given. The inequity is built into the system.

Why should the judges artificially devalue the lotteried objects, making everyone worse off on average?