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kibwen on Dec 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding I...

On a lighter note, here's United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximate... (the shark fins won)

oblio on Dec 14, 2022 | [–]

That's strangely... not "lighter".

Those shark fins represented about 30 000 sharks killed (!) illegally (!!!).

They even amended the law to block such future abuses.

staticautomatic on Dec 13, 2022 | [–]

in rem cases have the best captions

rkagerer on Dec 13, 2022 | [–]

More of them here (scroll to US Examples): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction#United_S...

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