The circumstances in which it would be morally permissible to break the law depends on the validity of the law in the situation. For some things, such as jay walking when a car isn't coming, are acceptable as breaking said law would not pose a risk to the rule the law wished to enforce. Even if you jaywalked in this situation, it doesn't pose any risk to those around you and the action doesn't mean to undermine the validity of the law. There are cases where laws are unjust though, and to break them held protect another from suffering the same injustice. Martin Luther King, in his letter, states a similar idea where he believes a set of laws to be unjust so he resorts to acting in ways to undermine said laws. He understands
