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There are countless cases where lawsuits have followed the letter of the law, but gone completely against morality. Laws are normally too general to take special cases in point, where as everything has a moral value, and the sum of those values make something moral or not moral.
So if you are in your house, and a burglar breaks in and proceeds to rob you, and you brandish a knife against said robber and detain him until authorities show up, the robber can sue you and win for any damages done. This has been done in many states. Was it moral for them to be robbing you? no, was it moral for you to defend yourself and your property? yes, but neither were legal, so the burglar gets penalized, and you do as well.
There are other examples, but I don't want to ruin anyone's faith in the legal system, because more often than not, it seems to work well enough.
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