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When Sacha Baron Cohen was being threatened by the Kazakhstan government with legal action, he replied as his character, Borat: "I'd like to state that I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government decision to sue this Jew."

The Honas Wagner card; the most expensive baseball card in the world is so rare because it was sold by the 'American Tobacco Company'. Wagner was a non smoker and he threatened to seek legal action against ATC so they stopped producing it.

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1. Light Bulb Manufacturers formed a Market Controlling 'Cartel' that disallowed 1000 Hour+ lightbulbs, and threatened legal action to any company who did.

2. Neil Armstrong threatened legal action against his barber, for selling his hair to a collector for $3,000.

3. A North Carolina man owns the only known recording of Super Bowl I, as CBS and NBC didn't save it. The NFL countered his $1 million offer for the taping with $30,000, then later refused to buy it at all, yet warned him he'll face legal action if he sells it to anyone else.

4. Bill Baird, who was convicted as a felon in 1967 for giving a speech to 1,500 college students about birth control and then handing out one package of condoms and one of contraceptive foam. His actions would not be legal until 1972.

5. In 1989, Disney forced three daycare centers to remove a mural of Mickey, Donald and Goofy under threat of legal action

6. Disney never sought legal action against Escape From Tomorrow (a movie shot illegally inside Disneyland featuring among other things Disney princesses as prostitutes) in order to avoid giving it extra publicity. The movie ended up only making $171,962 theatrically.

7. In 2005 a barber sold Neil Armstrong's hair, after giving him a haircut, for $3000. Neil Armstrong threatened legal action. Currently his hair is being sold at £399 for each half inch strand.

8. There's going to be a backup of the backup of the internet located in Canada, to shield data from some possible American legal action.

9. Tesla Motors wanted to name their 2017 car the "Model E", so they could spell " SEX" with their three car models. Ford Motors threatened legal action, so they changed it to "Model 3", to spell " S3X".

10. The satire show Have I Got News For You once published about a British politician: "Given Mr Allason's fondness for pursuing libel actions, there are also excellent legal reasons for not referring to him as a conniving little shit." He promptly sued and lost.

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In Texas in 2009, a man shot a prostitute he had payed for in the neck because she left without having sex with him. She became paralyzed, and died about seven months later but the judge ruled his actions to be legal.

Doctor Who's Dalek enemies were featured in a 2003 WB movie 'Looney Toons: Back in Action' as the director assumed they were public domain. They aren't, leading to legal troubles. - source

Ferdinand Porsche stole several design elements of Volkswagen Beetle from an Austrian engineer named Hans Ledwinka of Tatra, a Czech car company. Tatra took legal action, but Hitler invaded Austria, seized its factory, and banned the car. The case was settled by VW after the war. - source

Sir Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry saved a Southampton pub called "The Hobbit" from having to change its name after being threatened with legal action based on the accusations that the pub was committing copyright infringement.

A geneticist discovered a cancer-causing gene and called it 'Pokemon', which stands for "POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor". He decided to rename it as 'Zbtb7' because The Pokémon Company, not wanting bad press, threatened him with legal action. - source

In the mid 1990's 20th Century Fox brought legal action against Lion Nathan's for producing Duff Beer. The product was ordered to be pulled from store shelves and destroyed. The beer became a collectors' item in the process, with one case selling for US$13,000

In 2013 Google threatened the Swedish Language Council with legal action if they included the word 'ungoogleable' in the annual list of new Swedish words

That, in Feb 1970, Led Zeppelin performed in Copenhagen under the name ‘‘The Nobs’’ for one night only. This was the result of a threat of legal action from aristocrat Frau Eva von Zeppelin, who objected to the band using the Zeppelin family name.

In 2012 Google threatened legal action when the Language Council of Sweden included "ogooglebar" ("ungoogleable") in a list of colloquialisms. The council removed the word and expressed "displeasure with Google's attempts to control the language."

Belarus airs an unlicensed Russian-language clone of the American television program, The Big Bang Theory, and producers of the American series are powerless to take legal action, because Belarusian television is a state-owned and -operated enterprise

There is no upper calibre limit on british gun laws for bolt actions, so artillery pieces and cannons are legal to own under a rifle license if they do not automatically reload and are breach loading