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Where angels fear to tread.

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As the judiciary Discusion seemes to be heating up I've decided to lighten it up a bit.

Some of Ashcrofts poast and his unhesiting willingnes to reveal his RL information lead me to suspect that he may be just a we bit sheltered :) as far as the posibilites of SL go. He may have no idea what sort of pitfalls await the unwary judicial pioners of SL, and in his zeal to bring the benefits of law to SL may be sorely tempted to rush in where angels fear to tread.

There are some cases where the only sane response is to say "Im not going to touch that with a 20m prim pole, - unless i absolutly have to." and the atorney, arbatrator or judges dilima is how to politely decline with a straight face.
Every atorney or judge in RL has heard of the "Your visousus bulldog raped my pressous podell" type case. Such cases are usually quietly disismised in RL but in SL cases can come from fauther in the Twylite Zone and be harder to dismiss.

Some cases i coud imagine falling on the docket. Coud any of you with better imagination think of cases you wouden't touch with a 20m prim pole?

"That Linden Asaulted me."

"His scripted dog peed on my pants, Assault"

"The Slave dancer i hired for 1,500L for our CN feast wanted an extra 1,000L to cyber a guest so i sent her home and i want my money back!"

"My ex Domanant abused me for months, Now i need a restraing order least keeping him from the sim least I fall back into that degrading lifestyle."

"The SK intimate emoter is a transperent ripoff of my Xcite Clit script and its being sold in your sim, put a stop to it." - Considering the bad will between the SK intimate people and the Xcite people their is a disturbing posiblity that a varant of this case coud be presented.

"The lower tatto texture on her skin for sale is stolen from my copywrited pornagraphic web site, here are side by side Jpegs to prove it."
:lol:

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Re: Where angels fear to tread.

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[quote="Samantha Fuller":2nmvw2yv]As the judiciary Discusion seemes to be heating up I've decided to lighten it up a bit.

Some of Ashcrofts poast and his unhesiting willingnes to reveal his RL information lead me to suspect that he may be just a we bit sheltered :) as far as the posibilites of SL go. He may have no idea what sort of pitfalls await the unwary judicial pioners of SL, and in his zeal to bring the benefits of law to SL may be sorely tempted to rush in where angels fear to tread.

There are some cases where the only sane response is to say "Im not going to touch that with a 20m prim pole, - unless i absolutly have to." and the atorney, arbatrator or judges dilima is how to politely decline with a straight face.
Every atorney or judge in RL has heard of the "Your visousus bulldog raped my pressous podell" type case. Such cases are usually quietly disismised in RL but in SL cases can come from fauther in the Twylite Zone and be harder to dismiss.

Some cases i coud imagine falling on the docket. Coud any of you with better imagination think of cases you wouden't touch with a 20m prim pole?
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Some of these are quite within the jurisdiction and power of our courts, if those involved in one or both sides are citizens:

[quote:2nmvw2yv]"That Linden Asaulted me."[/quote:2nmvw2yv]

Hmm. Maybe our courts could ban a Linden. Interesting to see if it would stick.

[quote:2nmvw2yv]"His scripted dog peed on my pants, Assault"[/quote:2nmvw2yv]
CDS courts should be able to decide this one fairly quickly.

[quote:2nmvw2yv]"The Slave dancer i hired for 1,500L for our CN feast wanted an extra 1,000L to cyber a guest so i sent her home and i want my money back!"[/quote:2nmvw2yv]
Sounds like a fairly standard contract dispute.

[quote:2nmvw2yv]"My ex Domanant abused me for months, Now i need a restraing order least keeping him from the sim least I fall back into that degrading lifestyle."[/quote:2nmvw2yv]
Sounds like a usual domestic relations case, well within the bounds for our courts to offer protection, if the complainant is a citizen.

[quote:2nmvw2yv]"The SK intimate emoter is a transperent ripoff of my Xcite Clit script and its being sold in your sim, put a stop to it." - Considering the bad will between the SK intimate people and the Xcite people their is a disturbing posiblity that a varant of this case coud be presented.[/quote:2nmvw2yv]
This is exactly the kind of intellectual property case our courts are designed to handle.

[quote:2nmvw2yv]"The lower tatto texture on her skin for sale is stolen from my copywrited pornagraphic web site, here are side by side Jpegs to prove it." :lol:[/quote:2nmvw2yv]
Same here.

Your possible cases certainly made me smile, :D and make me think that having a sense of humor, or even humour, is an important requirement for our judiciary. But can they be qualified? :D

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Post by Samantha Fuller »

Crabgrass ... Crabgrass i'm disapointed in you, and to think that i was afraid that Ashcroft woud rush in where angels fear to tread - Just kidding :)

There are good reasons to gingerly take these kind of cases, your post identified some of them. The main problem and reason no sane Judges and lawyer (particulary one who has released his RL information) want's to see such case is the Likely internet and RL media gabfest. Woud you like to have RL life reporters asking your RL asociates to second gues your decision on shuch a case?

I've given anotherreason to hear and partial solution in the PCA Judiciary Amendment + Judiciary Revision Bill thread its the 3rd post on the 3rd page if you dont want to read ash's lengthly arguements.

Addtionaly a case aginst a Linden exposes the CDS to posibly catastrophic retalitation. I'd expect a lot of backstage coraspondance to find out if LL was willing to wave effective Diplitomatic Imunity and if so whether they woud inforse the dicision or allow the dicision to go spalt aginst linden powers.

The case off the scripted dog poses the question or adds a tiny bit of comon law to the question "In the case somewhat unpredictable coded objects when do we hold the owner, the creator, or object itself acountable?". :P

Here have some rope, its free! :)
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