Re: Which is why I always turn off email sigs...
THAT does NOT Apply in the USA!
MANY lawyers have won cases where those signatures ARE ACTUALLY ENFORCEABLE depending upon the state of the user/sender AND/OR the authority of the local Intellectual Property regulations!
I personally know of one case where a $150,000 fine was levied against an online user of a email system for forwarding a privileged email to another user! Stupidly, the defendant did NOT declare bankruptcy immediately after judgement and then got rung up in the CRIMINAL-side of the civil court system when the court order payment rules were not followed (i.e. felony-level Contempt of Court charges!) The judge sent him away for 6 months in County Jail for not attending an available-assets-discovery hearing!
Those things on the body DO HAVE THE FORCE OF U.S. LAW if they are U.S.-based and I can tel you that that reach is GLOBAL !!!!!! People have found out THE HARD WAY just how far the U.S. legal system and the bounty hunter system stretches!
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