Questions tagged [extraterritorial-jurisdiction]
Extraterritorial jurisdiction is when the laws of a particular nation are applied outside that nation's territory.
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Circuit court misquotes supreme court: what precedent does district court follow?
In United States v. Bowman (1922), the Supreme Court ruled that the presumption against the extraterritorial application of a statute does not apply to statutes that are "not logically dependent ...
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Claiming *forum non conveniens* after extended “shadow litigation”
Can someone claim that a particular forum is inconvenient after challenging service through a proxy (the recipient), thus essentially "shadow litigating" intensively for an extended period ...
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Does EU/US copyright law follow its citizens wherever they go?
Abby lives in the European Union or United States.
Abby visits Ben in Country X, which has no copyright laws. Ben has a copy of a movie that is protected under the copyright laws of Abby's home ...
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Can the law of a country be applied over a resident of another country? [duplicate]
Let's say for example that I am the resident of country X. I'm a hacker and I decided to hack into bank accounts of people from Saudi Arabia. However, Saudi Arabia has a law which prohibits hacking ...
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Original work or derivative work if published posthumously and never previously registered?
I'm trying to determine how a literary work should be registered -- as a derivative work with two authors, or as a derivative work with me as claimant and author? Or neither? Details:
My mother wrote ...
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To what extent can a country criminalize acts outside its territory?
Indonesia prohibits pornography.
If someone creates porn in Indonesia, that's illegal.
What about if an Indonesian citizen creates porn somewhere else?
What about if a non-Indonesian is a porn star ...
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What happens if you break a law in another country outside of that country?
Let's say I wanted to deliver a book that is banned in Bob's country. This book is not banned in my country. I understand that if I go to his country to deliver it, I may get arrested, because I'm ...
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How long an arm does the U.S. have against foreign “violators” of U.S. law outside the U.S.?
Suppose there is a foreign manufacturer who observes say, anti-pollution laws in his home country, but engages in practices that would be clearly illegal under U.S. environmental laws. Suppose the ...
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Is the illegality of an action constrained to a country?
John is a citizen of country X. Doing action A is illegal in his country.
He travels to country Y where action A is legal (officially legal, that is codified as being legal, not merely tolerated) and ...
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Breaking Laws in Different Jurisdictions
I am a citizen of the United States of America. As such, it is illegal for me to--to take an extreme example--murder. However, say I am going on vacation to a little nation where it is not illegal to ...
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What is it called when a country's laws apply to its citizens outside the country?
Suppose that a European country X (e.g. Germany) has a law against adults sleeping with people under the age of 16. Such a law, in this instance, would apply to anyone in German territory.
But ...
