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."