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OCR: widespread nature of this practice, and although tt. is impossible to calculate the frequency with which vacatur upon settlement goes unreported. 11 surely happens with even gTeater frequencv than reflected hy reported decisions The prevalence ot vacating judgments upon settlement reflects the fact that primary purpose of the judiciary as reflected in Article III of the Constitution, to provide forum for the resolution of real cases or controversies between actual litigants and that judgment means this end. AS this Court has declared: In all civil litigation, the judicial decree is not the end but the means the pua of the rainbow lies not judgment, but Some action (or cessation of acti ion the defendant that the judgment produces the payment of damages, or some specific perfonnanee teminat ...