There was an interesting piece way back when SCA announced they were suing him for bonus payments they made under suspicion that he doped in ’06.
The basic premis was that because the USADA are a formally recognised and accredited governing body their findings & rulings are taken as fact until proven otherwise. LA’s refusal to contest their ruling is seen as an admission of guilt so any civil action against him would succeed unless he could, in a court of law, disprove the agency’s findings. In essence, he’d not have a leg to stand on without bringing everything into the public domain, including the Federal investigation which was pulled without any real explanation.
Personally, I’d like to see him and his team defend these actions so that any doubt (it seems some still believe) can be eradicated once & for all. The added bonus might be that the UCI are proven to have been complicit in the whole affair and then reformed from the top down.