On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 09:57:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > US law does not require choice of law clauses, so long as the > prosecuting party can in some sense claim to be in the US. Even if > they're a foreign multinational who just has an office there. They can > blithely apply their laws to everybody. Yes, this is idiotic. The > state of California takes it to extremes - they apply their own > *state* law to everybody. That's not (quite) true, according to the California Supreme Court. See: http://www.virtualrecordings.com/pavrelease.htm While not ideal, the situation is not *quite* as dire as you paint. > Sickeningly there's plenty of precedent for this second scenario. Stay > away from the US; they have delusions of imperialism. s/delusions/ambitions/ See: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/pnac_030310.html -- G. Branden Robinson | Half of being smart is knowing what Debian GNU/Linux | you're dumb at. branden@debian.org | -- David Gerrold http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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