• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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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      1 day ago

      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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        18 hours ago

        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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          5 hours ago

          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.