Comment by valicord
3 months ago
If you can sue shark fins, why not a website? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately...
3 months ago
If you can sue shark fins, why not a website? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately...
Amazing, here is a list of other similarly hilariously-titled “in rem jurisdiction” cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction#Examples
Some good ones: - United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster - United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness - South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats
My favorite one: United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Article_Consi...
"More or Less" maybe takes the cake for me.
I've spent a lot of time in forfeiture court and it's always a chuckle to hear these cases get called. Especially the defendants' lawyer "Yes, your honor, I represent the cats."
Always wanted the cat, or the Honda Civic or whatever to ask to represent themselves. I guess if there was a foreclosure against an Nvidia Spark with a local LLM it might be able to give it a worthy try.
My favorite is United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster.
The Rooster won.
Fantastic. Each case is basically an SCP object.
French law is based on an entirely different legal system compared to US (and Anglosphere law):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems...
It might not be possible to do something like that in France (though I assume there are other mechanisms available in that case).
Louisiana has a bunch of French law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana
And your point of trivia is not applicable here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals... -> Louisiana isn't in the list for the court that handled that trial.
Holy crap, 30'000 sharks kills for a bloody soup. Insane and that wasn't even their only journey.