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by R0b0t1 1548 days ago
The only real reason you get charged with contempt is for ignoring the warrant. If you try to verify it you're not ignoring it. If you ignore something that's not a warrant they're SoL. It's my understanding these "emergency requests" have no legal basis. The ability of the state to pressgang people into service is very limited.

I'm willing to agree the law is crap and you might go to jail (briefly) anyway, but that's not an excuse for "it should work this way" which is the direction everyone seems to be taking it.

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Don’t get stuck on the “emergency requests”, the people faking those are perfectly happy to fake court orders too.

> but that's not an excuse for "it should work this way" which is the direction everyone seems to be taking it.

I see many people arguing that the recipients should solve this problem by doing better verification, I don’t think that’s reasonable.

This is absolutely something that the lawmakers need to fix, but that will be a herculean task.

I'm aware they'll fake court orders too, which is your defense if you piss off the court. Sadly this is only an issue that can be solved by the recipients doing more verification. If the courts offered more verification, you still need to teach the recipients to make use of it.