Questions tagged [legal-research]
For questions about methods and sources for determining what the law is, or to find support for a legal argument.
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What is needed to access the written materials in a case?
County court decisions tend to be public. Some refer to other case documents such as particulars of claim or defence statements etc, sometimes by precise paragraphs.
Suppose a member of the public ...
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Is the Public Records Act of 1993 in force?
Jurisdiction: India
Legislation/Statute/... The Public Records Act, 1993
Merely what the title states. I don't see anything mentioning explicitly whether it is the case. Is The Public Records Act, ...
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Why do some decisions reference case law that references other case law? Why not just reference the original case law? [duplicate]
I have seen this loads of times as I read through court decisions and case law.
I am reading a Decision issued by an appeals court, and the judges cite a case that in turn cites a case. Here is the ...
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How to decode a citation to a case reporter
Citations to cases are often in the form Style of cause (year, if not reflected in the citation), [citation].
The [citation] element generally will include an abbreviated form of the reporter (e.g., S....
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Are there legal cases related to trademark infringement for using names inside a work?
Are there any legal cases regarding trademark infringement when a name is used inside a work? E.g a video game containing a location named using a trademarked name.
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What laws have amended the Equality Act 2010?
I find myself wishing to download a copy of the Equality Act 2010 in order to study it when lacking internet access. Of course legislation.gov.Uk offers a PDF kings printer version, but I fear this is ...
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Where can one find an up to date copy of sections 212-215 of the Housing Act 2004?
Legislation.gov.uk has up to date copies of many laws as they are most recently amended, but not of the Housing Act 2004. Where can an up to date version of this law be found online or in person?
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What case before August 27 2010 was McLachlin CJC referring, where an intervener barnstormed for 10 mins before she told him to "sit down"?
I transcribed 1:00:41 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's chat with CJC Beverly McLachlin, at the 2010 Tenth Circuit Bench and Bar Conference, on August 27 2010. "Please note that the first ...
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resources for reviewing legal cases in the UK
Is there a (free) resource in the UK for someone to obtain details of various cases brought to court, for example details of case history, court rulings?
I have come across, for example, https://www....
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Similar website to TheLawPages in the USA?
I use a website called TheLawPages to research various crimes, and sentences given to offenders. It is an invaluable tool, especially because it allows me to pick the type of court, offence type, and ...
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How to discover/be aware of changes in law that might affect oneself personally?
I just stumbled upon this article, where it talks about a recent law change:
Norway banned Russian citizens or companies from flying drones or other aircraft in the country on 28 February
I can ...
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Where can I go to find data on how many people were charged / convicted under a particular statute?
If I have a specific Federal Code and I want to find a rough estimate of (1) how many people were charged with breaking that specific law, and (2) how many people were convicted under that specific ...
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How can tourists compare Consumer Protection and Law, across the glut of Canadian jurisdictions?
What up-to-date resources compare the profusion of consumer protection legislations, particularly across Canadian provinces and territories? How can tourists pick the jurisdictions with the most ...
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Finding current case law for restatements
How do I find if/how a particular jurisdiction has adopted or implemented a Restatement of the law?
For example, Restatement (2nd) of Torts §912 goes on at some length about standards that apply to ...
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Which part of the Constitution was cited in Jacobson v. Williams?
Which part of the Constitution did the SCOTUS majority opinion in Jacobson v. Williams cite?
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Responsabilities on data breaches UK Data Protection Act
Following a question from THIS StackExchange about Data Protection Act application in the UK, there is an aspect about "proactivity" and "responsabilities" that I do not fully ...
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Historical civil and criminal fines for DMCA violations
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 allows for fines for those convicted under the act. Civil fines amounting up to $150,000 per infringed work, if the prosecution proves willful ...
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When did the Mexican legal requirement to register a child with two last names come into effect?
In Mexico, children are given two last names at birth, and keep those two surnames throughout life. That's built into information systems and assumed on government forms. It's required by government ...
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laboratory results being withheld until payment received from self pay patient
Is it legal for a Laboratory to withhold results from the ordering provider until a self pay patient pays their bill in full?
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Which countries divide children as legitimate and illegitimate?
Back in the 1990s in Chile, the law separating legitimate and illegitimate children was abolished and all children started to have the same rights. I'm not sure, but I think the term "...
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How are Indian laws classified and how many types of law are there?
As a common man, with a limited to no knowledge about the Indian legal system...
How are Indian laws classified? (Covering every law in India.)
If I were to search and know about a law in India, ...
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Are non debtors/third parties discharged or released with a chapter 11 bankruptcy?
I am doing some research on third party releases and I just want to get some clarification.
from this article: https://www.abi.org/abi-journal/requirements-for-the-approval-of-third-party-non-debtor-...
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Why is the Privacy Act called the Privacy Act?
The American Privacy Act allows subjects to access copies of records held on them by US government agencies.
But what does it have to do with privacy?
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How can I gather data from past cases in the US? Is it possible?
I want to understand the following:
Let's say I wanted to generate a report on the trends in outcomes of civil cases. Is there anywhere I could download any kind of data related to it? The parties ...
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Legal precedents or process in USA for removal or alteration of land restrictive covenants for a subdivision lot?
Are there any particularly helpful examples or precedent processes of having restrictive covenants lifted or lessened in the USA (specifically Ohio) when a property is still owned by the original land ...
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Mobile Application Trademark Dispute Help
I am owner of "EXAMPLE" word. This Trademark word is registered on November 2021. This trademark is registered in only India.
Now one Android app in Google Play Store is using this trademark ...
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Are hard knuckle gloves illegal in King County, Washington state?
I have researched Washington state laws regarding hard knuckle gloves and I can't find any. I have found prohibitions on "metal gloves" which are not the same as a plastic hard knuckle glove,...
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A departing director wants to convert his directors loan and owed salary into shares. How do we value the shares, and what are we obliged to pay?
We are raising investment with individual shares valued at £5.
A founder & director is leaving the company and claiming owed salary and directors' loans need to be paid or converted to shares. We ...
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Can a search engine receive DMCA takedowns? (linking to copyrighted content) [duplicate]
I have a site similar to google.com based in canada that indexes various websites online. Some of these sites link directly or indirectly to copyrighted content. I have a "torrent" tab that ...
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How can one find a comprehensive enumeration of all the precedent setting cases that pertain to a particular issue or rulings on a given statute?
how can one find a comprehensive enumeration of all the precedent setting cases that pertain to a particular issue or the application of a particular statute?
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How can one become comprehensively aware of all applicable statutes/remedies to a given situation when they are scattered between different acts?
For example if one is illegally evicted there seem to be remedies provided by the protection from eviction 1977, housing, deregulation, and housing and planning Acts, off the top of my head, but I ...
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How do I check the texts of New York State laws online?
I want to read up the text of laws online. I am specifically interested in New York State laws. Is there a webpage where I can read up on the text of laws in New York State, or perhaps some other ...
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As IPC 497 is struck down - can any married person now file a divorce based on the fundamental 'right to choose'?
Supreme Court of India has struck down IPC section 497:
A five-judge bench of the court ruled that section 497 of the Indian Penal Code violates
women’s right to equality and treats them like the ...
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is it necessary for India to have a war crimes act to prosecute war criminals in India too?
Many EU nations have a war crimes act in their countries to prosecute e g. Germany and the UK.
war crime act 1991
war crime act in india
Section 120A and 120B of IPC,1860 says that when two or more ...
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How many British statutes are in effect?
How can one find the full enumeration of presently effectual/binding laws making up the statute book at any given time? If they can endlessly be amended by each other then surely they must all be ...
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Is there a way to look up results of a case in the United Kingom just by having the case number?
I recently found a case on law360 that I want to know the outcome of.
In the article, they mentioned the following information:
case number (HT-2021-000213)
High Court of Justice of England and Wales
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Is the law of Accord and Satisfaction a very undeveloped field?
I have tried to find cases of Accord and Satisfaction in the Jamaican Jurisdiction but there are hardly any. And the UK courts also only have a few of them. Do you know where I can get it?
Moreover, ...
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Correlation between wealth and win rate
I’m trying to find out if there’s a correlation between win rates in civil cases and the wealth of the parties involved. I’ve searched google scholar but the only thing I can find is a paper regarding ...
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Can two legal complaints be combined in one lawsuit? How does that work? [closed]
Our craftswomens cooperative would sue under Chapter 2741 of the Ohio Revised Code (ORC)
prohibiting use of an individual's "persona" for "commercial purposes" without written ...
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Where can I find ‘The Common Law: Judicial Impartiality and Judge-Made Law’?
I’m working on the translation of a document, which quotes a substantial part of this text: ‘The Common Law: Judicial Impartiality and Judge-Made Law’ by H. K. Luke.
After some research, I realized ...
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How to contact pre-law students and teachers for a legal research project?
A True Crime Youtube creator features high-school pre-law students to read the female part in a deposition he publishes in video form.
The young women I have seen are unpracticed and intimidated by ...
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Why there isn't any law resulting from the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019?
It was stated that no later than 2 years, law must be created according to this bill. I can't find the law anywhere.
Talking about this bill:
H.R.2231 - Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019
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Is there "evidence-based" practice in law?
"Evidence-based practice" (sometimes colloquially called "what works") is a buzzword floating around many professions nowadays, especially medicine and education. The idea is to ...
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How to find a good HOA Lawyer to deal with confrontational HOA [closed]
Suppose that a person's current HOA is very aggressive with increases, fines and attorney fees that tends to silence community members rather than empowering them.
Suppose that the management ...
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Is there any comprehensive glossary of US legislative terms?
I'm currently working on a project that applies Natural Language Processing tools on bills and acts of the US state legislatures. I looked for glossaries of common terms in US legislation in order to ...
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(Online) Dictionary for German legal terms
Where can I find a search engine or (online) dictionary which returns the definition and usage of a given term?
Example:
Search: [Fachkunde ]
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Law Firm with one lawyer and hundreds of legal experts who haven't passed the bar
In this hypothetical scenario lets say there was a law firm that has only one lawyer to file all paper work, make all court room appearances to represent the firm. All of his work, however preparing ...
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Can messages in messaging application be used as evidence to accuse someone?
For domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, abusive partners can misuse messaging to harass, intimidate, and threaten.
How significant is evidence of messages in a messaging application (like ...
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Finding transcripts and associated documents for late 19th century Pennsylvania Orphans Court and Supreme Court decisions
Elisabetha Dietsche was my great-great-great-great-grandmother. She lived in Elzach, Baden (now part of Germany) from 1798 to 1844. Under the law in Baden at the time, she and her partner needed ...
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In modern day America, why are libel, slander and defamation covered by separate laws?
In 21st century America the laws governing libel, slander and defamation are wholly separate even through they overlap in substantial areas, rather than there being a single law covering all three. Is ...
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