This is an issue that individual pilots need to jump on collectively. WRITE YOUR REPS IN CONGRESS! Urge them for proper protections.
ASAP is one of the most successful reporting programs and has contributed SIGNIFICANTLY to aviation safety (for everybody) since it was implemented. It has resulted in procedural changes, chart changes, regulatory changes and provided insight to many shortcomings of the system.
This ruling has te potential for a dramatic impact on the number of pilots willing to participate (regardless of what some boneheaded judge may say- at the end of the day pilots WILL cover their ___).