Legal questions would have to be answered on a per-country basis, since different high courts can make different rulings.

I’m not sure people ‘bribe their way through’ a legal system by simply paying money, then wandering off with a good ruling. Vague laws might be swayed, but having public courts mean people can’t just aske for a murder charge to be dropped.

I don’t know of any unambiguous GPL violation which has been left alone. Trump’s social media (truth-social or something) was found to have violataed the GPL, so they’ll have to release that code.