Amazing, here is a list of other similarly hilariously-titled “in rem jurisdiction” cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction#Examples

Some good ones: - United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster - United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness - South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats

My favorite one: United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Article_Consi...

"More or Less" maybe takes the cake for me.

I've spent a lot of time in forfeiture court and it's always a chuckle to hear these cases get called. Especially the defendants' lawyer "Yes, your honor, I represent the cats."

Always wanted the cat, or the Honda Civic or whatever to ask to represent themselves. I guess if there was a foreclosure against an Nvidia Spark with a local LLM it might be able to give it a worthy try.

My favorite is United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster.

The Rooster won.

Fantastic. Each case is basically an SCP object.

French law is based on an entirely different legal system compared to US (and Anglosphere law):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems...

It might not be possible to do something like that in France (though I assume there are other mechanisms available in that case).

Louisiana has a bunch of French law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana

And your point of trivia is not applicable here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals... -> Louisiana isn't in the list for the court that handled that trial.

Holy crap, 30'000 sharks kills for a bloody soup. Insane and that wasn't even their only journey.