Timeline for Is Time Travel Legal?
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| Sep 5, 2022 at 13:43 | comment | added | D M | The US constitution only prohibits federal courts from hearing cases where there is no standing. States are free to have their own rules on that. | |
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| Feb 15, 2018 at 15:14 | comment | added | hszmv | All of which are legal entities which have some degree of standing to demand the courts respect their legal rights. Thus far, no personhood has not been conferred to the likes of aliens, vampires, and Sentient AIs as no known entity has stepped proven that they are these types of entities and claimed legal person-hood. Again, to answer the question, there is no legal merit to prosecute a time traveler under any extant law because it has not come up as a provable component to a legal question. | |
| Feb 14, 2018 at 23:58 | comment | added | ohwilleke | You don't need to be a U.S. citizen to have rights in a court of law, you merely have to be a person. Indeed, one of the main reasons that the federal court system was created was to allow aliens (mostly British one) to enforce their legal rights. Dead people routinely bring lawsuits - indeed, I am a lawyer for a dead person at this very moment. Non-humans such as corporations also routinely bring lawsuits. Also, courts are among the most notorious offenders when it comes to going back in time and changing what happened via nunc pro tunc orders, reformation judgments, and other legal fictions. | |
| Feb 14, 2018 at 19:21 | history | answered | hszmv | CC BY-SA 3.0 |