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USA here. I am a software engineer and hobby roboticist and I have just successfully built a quadcopter drone with a full-fledged microcontroller (running firmware that I wrote myself) inside of it, ...

In The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) movie, assistant federal prosecutor Richard speaks: Richard: The witness can't present them testimony that would assist in making a determination of guilt or ...

Disclaimer: IANAL, the following is just my research up to now. I understand that in many jurisdictions, reverse engineering - and especially decompilation of software without explicit permission from ...

I just read that under US law, the US president may pardon a person even before they have been sentenced, and even before they have been accused (see e.g. Ex Parte Garland, 1866). . I was curious ...

This question made me think of a situation: Alice asks Bob to crawl web site realestate.example.com and return results of the regular expression "Price:([0-9]*).*Size:([0-9]*)" Bob points a ...

What would happen if the identity of an individual named in a presidential pardon could not be ascertained with certainty, but several people have a strong claim to being the named individual? For ...

What are the typical loss ratio of insurance companies in US, Australia, and Indonesia? https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042315/what-difference-between-loss-ratio-and-combined-ratio.asp Loss ...

P is a social guest, hence a licensee. A flowerpot fell from the balcony and injured P. Is the homeowner liable to P?

I was watching a video by RealWorldPolice about a high school student who was arrested for carrying a loaded gun into his school in Seattle, WA. Footage of the entire search, detainment, and arrest of ...

I have a condo apartment in a high rise building which I rented out to a couple. There was an issue in the power panel of the floor that caused the power of my unit to flicker for the last 5 days. It ...

Under the POPI Act there are the following legal grounds for processing: https://popia.co.za/section-11-consent-justification-and-objection/ which provides a person might object to data being by the ...

Situation: We have a new construction site / home on a small farm. A gas line has been installed across my property, to service the house. I have NO utility easements filed except for an original ...

The front page when I pull up my lease states that on my second year my rent will go from $1095 to $1045. Once my second year hit it states that rent due is $1145. So I call and the tell me that the ...

A scenario similar to this has undoubtably been considered before but I haven't come across anything that is in the same vein. In any case, would this example be a specific type of contract/agreement ...

I wish to make a commercial PC video game based on the British commando units from 1940s that have been disbanded in 1946. The unit is "No.3 commando". Is the use of names like no.3 and ...

Imagine this scenario: I find a vacant unit in an apartment complex, pick the lock, and move in. Eventually the complex inspects the property and tells me to leave. I lie and say I am a tenant at ...

Say I used a match making website to find a girl. The website matched our personalities, likes, dislike, etc. It turns out that this women is a fraud. She is drop dead beautiful, but her intention was ...

Hypothetical question: If a USA house rep or senator is caught with extremely strong evidence that shows they only won via voting fraud, whether through mass ballot harvesting or other forms of fraud, ...

I am a software developer working for a city government. We have recently started testing employees for covid-19. We have been asked to develop a simple web application that the testers and those ...

My two brothers were appointed co-executors of my Moms will. Probate has been done for months now. We all 3 inherited her house in equal shares, two of us live there. I am being told because they were ...

Let's say I've been accused of a murder. Throughout the investigation I've plead the Fifth as to where I was when the crime happened. Eventually I'm put on trial, still pleading the fifth as to my ...

Suppose someone pays the down payment for their elderly parents and then the parents (after some number of years) pass away and have been paying into expenses and mortgage. If the parents are ...

Long story short, I have received six citations for speeding in a school zone posted 15 MPH. I received my first citation in the mail two weeks after the event occurred, thus, I racked up six tickets ...

What does it mean when, for a consumer such as myself, purchasing say a Xiaomi phone without a warranty from Amazon? If it states returnable/refundable? Why should it be a concern?

My Covid19 quarantine hotel in Thailand states i cannot use the gym, swimming pool or any outdoor area within the hotel to exercise and must wait 10 days before i can use the gym. Is this legal? ...

Follow-up question to What does this sentence about Trump's lawsuits in Pennsylvania mean? The document cited by Nate Eldredge in the answer to that question says: Federal courts are not venues for ...

Suppose I am entitled to use a weapon for home defense in the state of Florida. If I visit a friend for say 1 week, would the Castle Doctrine apply if an uninvited intruder entered the house of my ...

This question might seem absurd. But is it possible to just call some government agency and directly ask them if a law applies to them or their business? Or does the government's responsibility end ...

Some background first: When I was in college for engineering, the student-run IT department in the general dorm absolutely insisted on seeing every device on the network, and all the traffic too, to ...

Source A turning point for the Trump campaign’s legal efforts came on Nov. 13, when its core team of professional lawyers saw the writing on the wall. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in ...

According to the Military Commissions Act of 2006: The term 'unlawful enemy combatant' means — (i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities ...

In this page (and, no doubt, more reputable sites, but you can seek those out for yourself), Kodak Black says If The President Them Free Me, I’m Gonna Spend 1 million on Charity within The First Year ...

I'm a legal staff for a company working in Information Technology Field. My company is taking in a project in which there are three entities including my company, the government and Company X. In the ...

What are the required elements of valid claims for workplace exemptions of the following types? Exemption would be for an employer-required vaccination against some communicable illness. Medical: I ...

Suppose a current employee of some company is required by that company to receive a certain vaccination to remain employed. If the employee suffers damages by receiving the vaccine and it can be shown ...

Are there any cases from the UK, whether from the Supreme Court or any other courts, saying that the COVID-19 pandemic can be considered as a mitigating factor for sentencing?

So let's say I am a game developer, and somehow the game I was working on was leaked on the internet. Since nobody can legally obtain a copy of my game, can all the review of the leaked material be ...

Bob litigates against Rob. The case boils down to resolving two questions of law: X (rather critical to Bob) and Y (not so critical). The two questions are separate/isolated, although both are highly ...

From here, death rate of security guards is 1/1000 per year. Of the armed, professional guards its maybe 10x higher. An average life insurance policy is $100 per month for a 30 year old, with a about ...

I created a software compiler, that produces some object code from original source code, and designed processes around it such as documentation and pre-processing. I plan to sell this tool providing ...

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen attended CPAC dressed as President Trump while filming his latest movie Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Source Why wasn't Sacha Baron Cohen arrested for interrupting CPAC ...

This is a real scenario I witnessed. But for the sake of anonymity, I will not specify any names. Suppose the following entities: X is the company that provides a service. It is based in country C1. ...

There is racism and there is institutionsed racism. I've heard and read of both terms being used. The former most often in speech; and the latter more in in writing. According to a paper in the ...

I've seen several videos about pranks when someone dresses up as a zombie or other kind of monster, to scare people. I would assume that if such an actor dressed up as a monster suddenly attacks ...

I recall how the US legally justified its war in Iraq: weapons of mass destruction that weren't found and the British 'dodgy dossier' which had been cribbed from somebody's thesis. Presumably, before ...

The Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims constituted one of the main charges of genocide against the Serb forces at The Hague International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia. Here, the Serb ...

This court was established by resolution 827 of the Security Council at the UN in 1993 having jurisdiction of the four crimes known as war crimes: that is, genocide, crimes against humanity and grave ...

According to Migdals International Law: International law ... has no legislature. Whilst the General Assembly of UN, comprising of delegates from every member country, seems to fit this role, it's ...

According to Migdals International Law: Similarly the mistake of confusing international law from international morality must be avoided. Whilst they meet at certain points, the former is a legal one ...

There have been a number of legal rulings at state level which have helped to gag the supporters of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) at the state level in the USA. ...