Trying tot redefine reinstall?
Trying tot redefine reinstall?
Posted Dec 27, 2025 18:52 UTC (Sat) by Heretic_Blacksheep (guest, #169992)In reply to: Trying tot redefine reinstall? by nevets
Parent article: A partial ruling in the Vizio GPL suit
When a judge is in doubt because of ambiguity in the law, they usually fall back on how a term is likely understood by the general laity (hence the ruling). Another example of meeting necessary definitions would be all the federal lawsuits that additionally allege RICO violations - and the resultant ire of a federal judge because "the RICO" has a very specific construction and intent that almost no federal lawsuits alleging RICO meet. RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) is narrowly tailored to meet the federal government's need to take down organized crime syndicates, namely the "Five Families of New York" in the 1970s but also others since then. It's become a punctuation mark in federal lawsuits trying to win public opinion aspects as a "we think these are really bad people!!!111" mark instead where lawyers have been ignoring the definitions of the statute to try to make spectacle.
