• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    12 天前

    they could always be sued. the standing of the plaintiffs can (and given the defendant, will) always be challenged. some of it is fundamental rights, some of it’s procedural wrangling.

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      11 天前

      Yes they could always be sued. But people tend to shy away from sueing big companies like google. Seeing someone else win, makes it feel possible. Plus it shows a strategy for winning. Thus increasing the number of people trying for a payday.

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        10 天前

        Oh right sorry fuck. I get pedantic as fuck when I talk law (because the field itself is where you go to pedant professionally) and I’m try to get better at that. I would use the word momentum to describe what you are describing because “precedent” is a term of art (it has a very specific meaning in a the legal field) but there are others that would work too.

        I have recently been thinking about the family members who were attorneys and judges who passed away. Maybe I need to go hang out at the courthouse for a bit.

        • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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          10 天前

          The english language really does suck. Soo many words have too many meanings with critical differences. But I suppose if we had enough words for each to have only one meaning we could never remember them all.