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Threatening people to make them behave a certain way is actually illegal, even if that threat is legal action. Especially if you are trying to stop someone from
by DangitBobby 2y ago
Threatening people to make them behave a certain way is actually illegal, even if that threat is legal action. Especially if you are trying to stop someone from doing something well within their rights, knowingly abusing your privileged access to the law as a lawyer.
- dragonwriter 2y ago> Threatening people to make them behave a certain way is actually illegal, even if that threat is legal action No, its generally not. Every legal demand letter is a threat of legal action intended to produce a desired behavioral outcome in the target. Needless to say, issuing a demand letter is not generally itself illegal. > Especially if you are trying to stop someone from doing something well within their rights Threats of either actions which are themselves illegal (prohibited violence) or threats with illegal purposes (suppression of protected rights) are often illegal,but that's a lot narrower than “Threatening people to make them behave a certain way is actually illegal”.
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- DangitBobby 2y agoYour comment is framed as a disagreement but is actually just an elaboration. Granted, I should have said "can be illegal" instead of "is illegal" to make it narrower. The main point I was trying to make is that abuses of the legal system to coerce behavior are not allowed.