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If you can sue shark fins, why not a website? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately_64,695_Pounds_of_Shark_Fins https://en.wikipedia.org/

• xandrius 11mo ago
  Holy crap, 30'000 sharks kills for a bloody soup. Insane and that wasn't even their only journey.
• flufluflufluffy 11mo ago
  Amazing, here is a list of other similarly hilariously-titled “in rem jurisdiction” cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction#Examples 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
  • bogwog 11mo ago
    My favorite is United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster. The Rooster won.
  • robotnikman 11mo ago
    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_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...
    • rkomorn 11mo ago
      "More or Less" maybe takes the cake for me.
  • qingcharles 11mo ago
    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.
  • petalmind 11mo ago
    Fantastic. Each case is basically an SCP object.
• oblio 11mo ago
  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#/media/File:Legal_Systems_-_Global.svg 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).
  • casefields 11mo ago
    Louisiana has a bunch of French law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana
    • oblio 11mo ago
      And your point of trivia is not applicable here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals... -> Louisiana isn't in the list for the court that handled that trial.