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Nevertheless, requiring someone to actively act unlawfully is tricky. Furthermore, requiring someone to actively act against their beliefs is tricky. Getting someone to do so convincingly... very tricky.

Indeed, the fact that it's a civil matter makes it harder to circumvent, if anything - after all, there's a third party involved, and they don't need to accept the government's assertions that it was required (and note that the government doesn't automatically have a right to violate its own laws).

And of course, if any of this actually came to court, by that point it'd all be a moot.



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