Different laws may be in conflict, and you have to resolve it one way or the other. For example if copyright law would prevent you from repairing your device (like you need to put a coprighted image of an Xbox logo on your hard disk for it to be recognised) then your repair right may trump the distribution rights of the copyright owner.
Copyright law is also already an infringement of your right to free speech and the constitution only allows coypright and similar restrictions under very limited conditions, which can be argued are not respected by current copyright laws.
Your link isn't a judgment about the law. It is the copyright office inventing an exception to the law, as the law explicitly permits it to do, and as it does conservatively and rarely. This did not happen for CDL. There's no conflict here. There is plain comprehensible law and IA plainly and comprehensibly violated it. They could have waited for an exception from the copyright office. They did not. Although none would have come.
Different laws may be in conflict, and you have to resolve it one way or the other. For example if copyright law would prevent you from repairing your device (like you need to put a coprighted image of an Xbox logo on your hard disk for it to be recognised) then your repair right may trump the distribution rights of the copyright owner.