Thanks for the explanation. As I said, not a lawyer/not very familiar with US domestic law. For your thought experiment: maybe try to use something from the CF

Thanks for the explanation. As I said, not a lawyer/not very familiar with US domestic law. For your thought experiment: maybe try to use something from the CFT spectrum, because that you can make stick with a lot of places in some form or another? So not really simple civil law and probably not straight forward (could it even work?)