Who's the judge? That's usually all you need to know to determine how a trial is going to go.
If it's some nutbag democrat bastard, Mike is not going to catch any breaks. In Wisconsin, there is a very good chance it's a nutbag democrat judge.
I actually do enjoy reading the rulings. Granted, there are a lot of references to other rulings, and it would be prohibitively time consuming to do all the cross-referencing.
But you can get a general sense of what the judge is saying by reading the ruling.