The decision seemed final enough last Wednesday, when the board governing all of Seattle's community colleges unanimously voted to evict Occupy Seattle from the Seattle Central Community College campus.

That was that. For, like, two hours.

Assistant attorney General Derek Edwards filed an emergency rule to add a camping ban to the Washington Administrative Code, and officials said a 72-hour eviction notice would be posted Monday. But following a request for an emergency restraining order, filed by Occupy Seattle lawyers in Thurston County Superior Court that afternoon, Judge Christine Pomeroy set a court hearing for December 2 at 2:30 p.m.

Yesterday, Seattle Community Colleges chancellor Jill Wakefied announced on the college website, "We agreed that the college will not post the emergency rule prohibiting camping on campus until the hearing."

According to Edwards, the district must file a response by noon tomorrow. "The District feels it has a very strong case for adopting the emergency no camping rule, but we need to wait for Judge Pomeroy to make her ruling" on Friday, he wrote in an email to college officials. "She may rule immediately or take the matter under advisement."

Even if the judge rules in the district's favor, the deadline to vacate the south lawn wouldn't kick in until Monday evening—and it may drag on after that. College spokeswoman Patricia Paquette notes that the 72-hour notice is a minimum requirement to comply with the emergency rule. And even after those three days pass, she says, "it does not imply immediate eviction."

But the protesters aren’t convinced. With only three days remaining before the court hearing, Maria Arceo Gardner sat among the tents this morning and explained the rumors around camp: “They think people are going to come in with bulldozers.”

"I'm like, that's not going to happen."