I was talking with someone in another thread about certain less-than-legal things that have happened among the X-Men particularly in terms of the character of Jubilee (her essentially stealing Shogo before adopting him legally, and the fact that we never had any proof that the X-Men had legal custody of Jubilee when she was a minor). And I realize we tend to wave away a lot of extra-legal maeuvering done by the X-Men. The reason being that back in the day it was established that they were essentially an outlaw group. At least since the days when Prof. X stopped working with the FBI. The government had wanted them at least for questioning under the suspicion that they were a mutant terrorist group rather than the group that fought the mutant terrorist groups. The only completely legal X-team back in the '90s when I started reading was X-Factor, and even then it was often suggested that Val Cooper was using them to some extent thus proving the need for outlaw mutant heroes. Later on there was Storm's XSE, which didn't last long. But now they've gone public and people know where they are. And I haven't heard anything about them getting official sanction like the Avengers or Fantastic Four. So, what is their current legal status?