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Re:Elon’s Out by XorNot on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:07PM (#32040905)
This is an appeal to authority that is not valid: there are plainly a lot of lawyers out there who's legal opinion leaves a lot of daylight against the actual law. Rudy Giuliani took a long time to get disbarred.
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Re:Elon’s Out by codesections on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:20PM (#32040999)
> This is an appeal to authority that is not valid

I'm open to that criticism; I'm typically pretty skeptical of appeals to authority myself.

But to be clear: the appeal to authority I'm making isn't "legal opinion of a lawyer" (I agree that's very weak) but rather "opinion on corporate law by a Wachtell attorney who practiced corporate law" (Wachtell is probably the best corporate law firm in the world, and clearly in the top handful)

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Re:Elon’s Out by wutbrodo on Saturday July 09, 2022 @11:52PM (#32041689)
And in the example the parent comment gave: RUDY Guiliani was a US Attorney and the Associate Attorney General (third highest position in the DoJ).
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