The experts will still have their say. The issue is getting her on the list so she can compete with the others using the existing criteria.
The child doesn’t fit the criteria of the adult list to begin with. The cut off age of 12 is because the average adult lung does not fit the average child under the age of 12.
They didn’t pick that criteria out of thin air and the courts have no business second guessing the expertise of the transplant board.