In summary, if we look over the history of different civil rights movements in this country, the full measure of societal transformation and change did not occur all at once, but happened incrementally. As the United States Department of Justice formally acknowledged (in a subsequent legal action brought by a different religious practitioner) the UDV case "changed the landscape of the law as it related to religious freedom". To date, there have been more than 300 federal cases in the U.S. Courts that have applied the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of the UDV. The UDV's negotiated settlement agreement with the DEA, though not perfect, I think in anyone's estimation, can be seen as an important incremental step in defining the limits of government authority and control with respect to the exercise of individual conscience and religious liberty; or personal freedom.