Steve,
I'm truly not an authority, but I do think that FED publishes the Case Book to help explicate the rules, and when the rules aren't clear, we use the Case Book. Reasoning circularly, if a situation is in the Case Book, then at least a few folks must have judged that the Rules Book wasn't clear. I look at it simply: the FED has published it, made it easily and cheaply available, and therefore expects it to be used.
Dave Reed
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