CDR: Re: Make legal threats, go to jail for 20 years

[Sampo A Syreeni]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:

>Whoever knowingly provides or obtains the labor or services of a 
>person...by means of the abuse or threatened abuse of law or the legal process,
>shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
>
>URL: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.03244:
>
>I can imagine some abuses of this, in workplace situations or divorce cases...

OTOH, it could be extremely useful with frivolous patents etc.

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university