• Spendrill@lemm.ee
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    I’m not an American so I don’t know if this is possible but could not a lawyer start a class action using all the sovereign citizens as complainants against a credit card company on the basis that said company did not do their due diligence before issuing cards to people so unhinged they couldn’t possibly have entered into a contract with someone that required informed consent?

    I feel like putting these people on the stand for about five minutes each would give ample supporting evidence of the proposition.

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        At least it would enable the sovcits to see what a magic get out of jail free card actually looks like from the front row.

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      Sure, but who’s gonna bankroll it? Certainly the sovcits themselves aren’t chipping in. At that point you’re what, just suing the credit card companies for funsies?

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        Seeing as sovcits choose to self-represent in court proceedings, I doubt they trust lawyers. Also, I can’t imagine a lawyer accepting 1099a “payments” from a magical, secret bank account.

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        I mean, if there were a serious prospect of winning it would pay for itself. Unfortunately it would probably involve the Supreme Court paying for itself.

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        Not to mention, as a lawyer you’d get disbarred for such a ridiculous suit. Using anti-law against actual law? Kaboom - they’d have doubts about your abilities to practice legally.

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        I’m guessing that pretty much no one would be allowed to beat a credit card company in court, it would open too big a can of worms.

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          Allowed to beat them? Yes. Will they have a dozen lawyers from the most expensive firm they can find? Also yes.

          Corporations always have an extensive legal team which is why lawsuits rarely work against the wealthy.