Yeah, ultimately filing it too early is unimportant and any amount of stamping his feet that Lemonhead might be doing doesn't really matter. The filing was done now because it's
possible it would be the deadline, but it could also be after the decision regarding legal fees. Ultimately, ol' Lem would be pitching a fit whenever they filed it, either for filing too early or too late, but too early is way less of a problem than too late, so there ya go.
He's just trying to make the whole situation as confounding as possible in hopes of utilizing the "baffle 'em with bullshit" strategy. Most likely, he figures if he keeps dragging everyone into more weird pieces of nonsense,
something will get screwed up procedurally that he can score points off of. Strangely, none of this is really what you'd expect from the side that ostensibly "won" a decision; just something to

about.