French & Latin Lessons Why the DPRK didn’t do it.

To tie a bow around the argument made by Elissa Shevinsky, there is this simple, pre-litigation strategy that any good attorney is going to employ. Pushing the narrative of state sponsors and acts or war brings up two important phrases: Force Majeure & Cui Bono

If you are wondering where jingoistic twaddle is coming from given the scant evident, consider this; it is likely that the costs of the lawsuits and class actions arising out of this attack are going to rise into the billions. There is an extraordinarily convenient out for Sony: Force Majeure.

Force Majeure is the legal doctrine that sets the expectation that parties to a contracts cannot be reasonably expected to defend or indemnify each other due to act of war by sovereign states (among other things.) Makes one wonder doesn’t it?

The translation of the next phase, Cui Bono is left as a exercise for the reader