There are two competing whaling rules:
Iron-holds-the-whale: a whale belongs to the first ship to lodge a harpoon in it, provided that ship remains in active pursuit of the whale.
Fast-fish, loose-fish: a whale belongs to the first ship to harpoon it, but only while it remains physically attached to that ship. If it breaks free, any ship may claim it.
For the purposes of this debate, the year is 1701.

A road user charge is a fee drivers pay based on how much they use the roads. Instead of a flat annual fee, it is usually a tax calculated per kilometre.

For the purposes of this debate, an airline regulator would tell airlines which routes to fly, when they could fly them and what they could charge.

Earmarks are spending provisions inserted into broader, unrelated legislation that direct funds to specific projects, typically in a legislator’s constituency, as a condition for their support of the bill.

The Southern District of New York (SDNY) is one district of the federal Department of Justice, famously responsible for prosecuting Wall Street.

The SDNY has recently adopted a corporate enforcement framework in which firms who self-report white collar crimes by their employees and meet relevant conditions (e.g. cooperating with the prosecution, remediating harm) are not prosecuted at the corporate level.

In the 2000s, a number of appellate courts in India refused to issue injunctions (e.g. temporary prohibitions on the sale of a product) when pharmaceutical companies brought lawsuits claiming that their patents had been infringed. In doing so, they considered a relevant factor as being whether those injunctions were in the 'public interest'.

Malaysia has generally sought to remain neutral in US-China trade and security competition. Earlier this year, Lynas Rare Earths, an Australian company, signed an agreement with the US Department of Defense under which its Malaysian processing facilities would supply materials to the US military.

"While technological successes are celebrated, the social fabric is progressively eroded, as if by a silent virus”: Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas