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I think this is more that the offending satellite was at that point the responsibility of the satellite operator, not the launch operator.

I think they are saying "this is not on us, this is on the sat operator". Which may or may not be true, who knows.

unless the sat operator is sueing for a refund because they were put in the wrong orbit... its the sat operator.

If you get hit by a car 5 minutes after you get let off at a bus stop it isn't the bus drivers fault.

Nah, in this case the driver is the person who gets off and goes and bumps into another person.

Yeah while I didn't directly mention it, I'm referring to stages being discarded in space by a specific party