Originally Posted by
FredAnderssen
An analogy that comes to mind is the wife who hires a hitman to kill her husband and that "hitman" turns out to be an undercover police officer. She's arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, but the husband has no civil case as he was never in any kind of danger. Is this what you're saying?
Civil liability for unlawful conspiracy being limited to actual damages does undermine the opportunity to have legal standing.