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The dev team for Classic is much less likely to attempt to do so, and the miners less likely to adopt such a fork, since they declined to accept the fork the first time it happened.

If a fork happened in Classic to protect some party's financial interests, I think the more likely scenario is the great majority of miners opting to stay on the original branch.

I get that it's not a complete guarantee, but neither is the legal system. Contracts can be invalidated based on a judge's perception of their unfairness, on a technicality, or even on a whim.

>much more than the mob rule of the Ethereum crowd.

Also known as "miner consensus", same for all crypto currencies including btc

> The classic branch is still susceptible to the same problem, though.

So is bitcoin.