Suppose you are working on stock market prediction. you would like to predict whether or not a certain company will win a patent infringement lawsuit (by training on data of companies that had to defend against similar lawsuits). would you treat this as a classification or a regression problem?

I´m not following you. You mean like cheating while I´m doing my job (predict)?

Explanation: Working in the stock market might be classified as "it´s a dirty job, but someone has to do it", and it doesn´t matter. There´s no such thing as cheating or playing dirty. Earning your salary by predicting other people incomes an outcomes it´s just as any other job, and the position or situation of those people, it´s just a part of your job.