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yardie on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student...

ruin your life with litigation might be illegal in some jurisdictions.

If he threatened him with a criminal threat, ie "we're going to send you to jail if you don't pay up," that I know is definitely illegal and I've heard of lawyers threatened with disbarment for it.

pavel_lishin on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

> I've heard of lawyers threatened with disbarment for it.

Has anyone actually been disbarred, though? Threats are cheap.

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