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by cube13 5084 days ago
No. While I am from the US, it's difficult to tell exactly where in the entire world this court case applies to. If it was clearly stated that this was in the UK in the article, I wouldn't have that much of an issue.

Unfortunately, the only way to actually figure out that this was in the UK(as opposed to any of the other Commonwealth states that use similar court systems) was to go to the subsequent articles linked in TFA.
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ColinWright 5084 days ago 

  > If it was clearly stated that this was in the UK
  > in the article, I wouldn't have that much of an issue.
Clearly, because while the US doesn't take any notice of anything anyone else does, anything done in the US eventually applies to everyone else in the world. Therefore everyone in the world has to take notice of everything that happens in the US, while people in the US don't have to care or notice about anything outside.
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cube13 5084 days ago
Given the terminology used in the article, this could have been in Austrailia or New Zealand. Both countries use a similar court system(High Court->Court of Appeals->Supreme Court).

Between those two, the UK, and the US, the only place it was obvious that it could not have happened in was the US. Here, the term "High Court" usually applies only to the Supreme Court.

EDIT: It's also worth noting that it actually matters where in the UK this decision was made, as pointed out by cstross here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4251141

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