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Space Law - As if space itself wasn’t challenging enough, lawyers are increasingly jumping on the accelerating train of commercial space flight. Wired magazine has an entertaining collection of the Weirdest Legal Claims to Outer Space up on their site.

A Quebec man named Sylvio Langvein walked into a courthouse in Canada and filed a suit declaring himself owner of the planets in our solar system, four of Jupiter’s moons, and the interplanetary space between. […] By way of explanation, Langvein said he wanted to collect planets the same way that others collect hockey cards.

Space Law - As if space itself wasn’t challenging enough, lawyers are increasingly jumping on the accelerating train of commercial space flight. Wired magazine has an entertaining collection of the Weirdest Legal Claims to Outer Space up on their site.

A Quebec man named Sylvio Langvein walked into a courthouse in Canada and filed a suit declaring himself owner of the planets in our solar system, four of Jupiter’s moons, and the interplanetary space between. […] By way of explanation, Langvein said he wanted to collect planets the same way that others collect hockey cards.

Posted on Monday, June 11 2012. Tagged with: spacesociety
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