Legal and constitutional error already traverse plural authority into a lawful later state: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (603 U.S. 369) for who may read a statute; the German Federal Constitutional Court's PSPP judgment of 5 May 2020 (2 BvR 859/15) and the 29 April 2021 execution order for a three-month participation condition that ended in recorded political acceptance. Inquiry findings sometimes become statute on a clock (Infected Blood Compensation Scheme under the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024). Nordic legality offices — the Finnish Chancellor of Justice and the Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellor of Justice — stop, by design, before the programme moves. AI corrigibility is not one model: Soares et al. (2015) want cooperation with an operator's intervention; the Off-Switch Game wants uncertainty about a human objective, which Carey (AIES 2018) showed is fragile under a misspecified reward. The remaining claim is narrower than the title: whether a mechanism contradiction, judged against the policy's own causal claim, has ever completed that path without being recoded as a rights case or a payout. Author dispositions stay author-owned.