You make sweeping statements like the lawsuit "may not get there." Yet you offer no evidence to back them up. 

OK lets take things from your point of view: that Hammond is the Pope's most secret agent planted at SNAP to gather evidence and then, four years later, file a lawsuit with the full backing of the Vatican and an army of Vatican lawyers who have been after SNAP for decades and who are now presenting their end game. 

If that is so do you really think that  this massive army of attorneys are going to see that it does not get to court? Do you think that Hammond is going to settle? That it is going to get dismissed? If it is going to get dismissed then on what grounds? It is obvious that Hammond had access to Clohessy and Blaine's email accounts so who knows what evidence there is beyond the appetizers in the suit? I would lay odds that SNAP does not want them to be public given their past history of zealously protecting their emails (see Jiang case) so why risk the press?