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- 12 de Jul, 2021
An idea I had a while back.
Let's say you want to establish some precedent in court, something you can refer back to later which will protect you. You can never be sure how a case might shake out, but sometimes you just want to get a ruling on something at all without the question staying un-answered due to the parties settling or bullshit procedural issues. But you want it to be ruled on safely without major risk to yourself.
So you find someone to be your adversary in court, willingly. You're going to create a legitimate problem, you're going to make fun of them on the Internet by misusing their copyrighted image, like doodling all over their face or something. And they're going to sue you over it, and force the court to rule on it.
The two of you agree in advance that whoever is ordered to pay damages is going to immediately give it right back to the other person.
You both file pro se, so there are no lawyers involved who would figure out you're colluding on this. Neither of you want it to be known that this is a case to establish precedent so neither make discovery requests that could reveal this. You both fight as convincingly as possible, maybe even with advice from a lawyer friend for both sides.
And the judge rules, and you both keep appealing it to higher courts, just to make sure the ruling gets affirmed at the highest possible level.
Is there any reason someone couldn't do this?
Let's say you want to establish some precedent in court, something you can refer back to later which will protect you. You can never be sure how a case might shake out, but sometimes you just want to get a ruling on something at all without the question staying un-answered due to the parties settling or bullshit procedural issues. But you want it to be ruled on safely without major risk to yourself.
So you find someone to be your adversary in court, willingly. You're going to create a legitimate problem, you're going to make fun of them on the Internet by misusing their copyrighted image, like doodling all over their face or something. And they're going to sue you over it, and force the court to rule on it.
The two of you agree in advance that whoever is ordered to pay damages is going to immediately give it right back to the other person.
You both file pro se, so there are no lawyers involved who would figure out you're colluding on this. Neither of you want it to be known that this is a case to establish precedent so neither make discovery requests that could reveal this. You both fight as convincingly as possible, maybe even with advice from a lawyer friend for both sides.
And the judge rules, and you both keep appealing it to higher courts, just to make sure the ruling gets affirmed at the highest possible level.
Is there any reason someone couldn't do this?
