Questions tagged [united-states]
For questions specific to the United States as a whole, or that span multiple state jurisdictions. If your question is related to a specific state then you should use that state's tag instead (or as well).
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Secret Service Protection for Former U.S. Presidents During Incarceration
Under the provisions of the Former Presidents Act (FPA), is there any legal precedent or relevant existing laws that address the issue of Secret Service protection for a former U.S. president during a ...
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Do labor laws in the US forbid firing striking union members and hiring strikebreakers?
I'm particularly interested in the context of current WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike in the US, but this is a general question. If some business amid a union strike would terminate its agreement with a union, ...
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Can a citizen's arrest be made for a purely Federal offense?
First of all, let me start by saying that nearly all lawyers and police agree that a citizen's arrest is a poor choice even when it is legal.
I can find a lot of resources on the legality of citizen's ...
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Comparison of Biden and Evanston Race-Conscious Policies
In 2021, the Biden administration created a loan forgiveness program that excluded white farmers, on the argument that Black people had suffered historical damages. It was ruled unconstitutional and a ...
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Details despite NDA for selling company (California)
This question says that it may be possible that an NDA can exist such that if someone were to sell their company, can they can have an NDA that prevents them from speaking about their company name, ...
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NDA for selling company
Hypothetically, if someone were to say they sold their company, can they have an NDA that prevents them from speaking about their company name, the buying company's name, and details about what their ...
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payment of taxes in the USA following an online sale of an electronic product [duplicate]
I would like to sell a luminaire on the European market and in the USA.
From what I understand, CE certification is required to sell on the European market.
In the USA, however, such certification is ...
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Would it by libel if I told someone one of their friends is a thief?
Considering US law in general -
An associate (call him Patrick) stole a fair bit of money over several years. I eventually severed all business relations and blocked Patrick on all platforms. I have ...
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What if someone serving time in a state prison gets elected president?
What if someone serving time in a state prison gets elected president?
Would it be legal for the state to continue to incarcerate a US president?
Can he order himself to be released (for example, on ...
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Can congress end the SAG strike?
The Screen Actors Guild recently began a strike, ceasing all work on most productions in the motion picture industry.
Last year in 2022 Congress used the Railway Labor Act to force an end to the ...
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Legality of Housing Reparations
Evanston, IL is offering $25,000 grants for housing costs to black residents who owned homes before 1969, but denies assistance to Asian, Hispanic, or white residents.
My impression is that the Civil ...
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Why does Double Jeopardy apply if you confess?
If you were tried for murder and acquitted - then you go out and publicly admit that they were wrong, you did actually murder that person. Where is the justice in not being able to be tried again in ...
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Can a church legally initiate formal discipline against a member who has officially withdrawn/resigned from the church?
Suppose Jane is a member of a fundamentalist Evangelical church. She violates church doctrine and submits her resignation. At this point, church doctrine calls for her to be shunned by the church ...
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Is it illegal for an American to go to North Korea?
Is it illegal for US citizens to travel to North Korea?
It may currently be impossible and probably a very bad idea, but is it actually illegal?
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Where in U.S. law is it officially argued that the U.S. criminal justice system presumes defendants commit crimes with free will?
I've been studying the relation between free will and the U.S. criminal justice system, and it appears that there is the argument that whether or not a defendant had free will to commit a crime is a ...
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Do any USA states require accepting US cash for payment of goods or services?
According to the United States Federal Reserve:
There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or ...
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Can't find an attorney to represent us [closed]
I've literally called over 300 plus attorneys and know for fact my wife and I have multiple that will pay out huge, one being Walmart, the other being a municipality for the corruption and malicious ...
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Naming Estate Accounts
Joe Smith (a fictional person) dies with several brokerage accounts and a living revocable trust. The trust has several brokerage accounts also. The name of the trust is Smith Living Trust. Now, ...
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Is there a law that regulates charging an online account to which the owner has no access?
Is it legal for an online service to charge an account holder credit card for services that are contingent on the account holder being able to manage their account if the account holder's access has ...
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How similar do trademarks have to be to be infringement? [duplicate]
I received a marketing email from Lenovo with the slogan "Different is better." This seems quite similar to Apple's "Think different," to the point that had I seen the slogan out ...
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Does 2 party consent apply if the data is anonymized?
If I have a text conversation between myself and another party, both of whom reside in 2 party consent states in the US, if I remove all reasonably identifying information, do I still need consent ...
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EIN number(s) for an Estate - Are two needed?
A person dies with money in individual brokerage accounts and a living revocable trust which has brokerage accounts.
Given these facts, it is my claim that to settle the estate, you should get two EIN ...
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Form L-8 and Death in New Jersey
Consider the following hypothetical case. A parent dies, in 2023, leaving all his money to his daughter in the state of New Jersey. His sole assets are two brokerage account worth 2 million dollars ...
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Is a thumbs-up emoji considered as legally binding agreement in the United States?
I read that a thumbs-up emoji considered as legally binding agreement in Canada. Is a thumbs-up emoji considered as legally binding agreement in the United States?
If state-specific, I am mostly ...
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Hypothetical POTUS divorce
If the spouse of the President of the United States filed for divorce, would
the President have any claim of immunity from any litigation that followed (e.g. the division of assets in the matrimonial ...
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Is it possible to refuse an offered license?
Sometimes, things that are made of legal fiction are held to operate as normal even when someone attempts to disobey them.
For example, I can browse a web site and agree to its terms, or I can not ...
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Are amateur radio transmissions in the public domain?
I've heard from many non-authoritative sources that all US amateur radio transmissions (except copyright-infringing ones, of course) are automatically released into the public domain, but I have never ...
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Use-wrap contract formation for locally-run licensed software
In this answer, the Microsoft Windows license agreement is describe as having a sort of use-wrap method of action, where using Microsoft Windows creates an agreement between you and Microsoft because ...
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Are attorneys legally or ethically bound to share evidence in civil cases before complaints are filed?
Are attorneys legally or ethically bound to share evidence or discovery materials in civil matters before actual complaints are filed?
Let's say Person A (a non-public figure) suspects Person B (a non-...
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What happens if a witness that has been subpoenaed refuses to speak to the opposing party's lawyers?
I'm not a lawyer, and this is a hypothetical situation that I thought about while watching a trial.
If a prosecutor issues a subpoena for someone to testify at a trial, it's my understanding that the ...
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Is operating a part-time beacon in the 10-metre band permitted?
Consider the text of 47 CFR § 97.203 - Beacon station, with the following scenario:
Sally is a radio operator turning her station into a part-time beacon. She is class Extra and is allowed in all of ...
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Is it legal to intentionally wait before filing a copyright lawsuit to maximize profits?
Let's say someone uses my intellectual property without my consent and uses it for commercial purposes. Can I wait until they've made many millions of dollars off of my work, so that I can sue and ...
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GDPR implications of email sent to a misconfigured host
I sent an email to a website's contact and my mailserver received this error:
<...@...>: host ....mail.protection.outlook.com[104.47.70.110] said:
451 4.4.4 Mail received as unauthenticated, ...
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Is it illegal to honk at a police officer in the USA?
Suppose a police car is stopped at a green light and not moving. Is it illegal for me to honk at him? What if I can't drive around him?
What if it happens to be a civilian vehicle and a plainclothes ...
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Access to US Supreme Court brief
does anyone have access to the American edition of Westlaw? I’m trying to get hold of a copy of the US Supreme Court brief under reference 2000 WL 432367, any pointers or help appreciated!
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Are complaints to hospital administration PHI under HIPAA's Privacy Rule
Paul has heart surgery. While he's recovering, staff is constantly distracted by their phones and fails to check in on him at required intervals, administer medication on time, and provide medically ...
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Getting an EIN number for a Trust and Section 645
A person dies with a revocable trust that becomes irrevocable after the person's death. The trustee of the irrevocable trust wants to get an EIN number. If in the process of getting the EIN number he/...
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How and when did trespass become a crime, or not a crime?
principally interested in the us and in England, but what are the origins of trespass being treated as not a crime in England, and conversely as a crime in the U.S.? As with terminology for civil ...
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In what jurisdictions is trespassing a criminal matter?
In England trespass in itself is an entirely civil matter, but in the US it is apparently a crime. What other jurisdictions treat the fact of having improperly tread on another’s property as a crime?
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What is an OFAC "prohibited transaction"?
so obvious first step: the official OFAC F.A.Q. (i.e. of the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control in the U.S. Treasury Department):
3. What does one mean by the term "prohibited transactions&...
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How does a clause of reverter or "possibility of reverter" interact with the Rule Against Perpetuities?
This is a follow up to another more broad question. According to Wikipedia on the possibility of reverter,
There is a possibility of reverter when an estate will return to the grantor if a condition ...
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Alternatives to affirmative action in college admissions
Suppose that a university wants to preferentially admit students with backgrounds correlated with, but distinct from, a racial group. Assume that the university accepts federal funding, and so falls ...
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Is it legally possible to bring an untested vaccine to market (in USA)? [closed]
Here Neil DeGrasse Tyson says there was testing and a system in place assuring the safe production of the new vaccines. He addresses people who have claimed there was no testing. That got me curious ...
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Can the Secret Service arrest someone who uses an illegal drug inside of the White House?
In light of the recent discovery of cocaine inside the West Wing of the White House, I am wondering if a person who either lives in, or works in, or makes a visit to the White House, is caught using ...
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Is it legal for a US military servicemember to disobey a lawful order that they reasonably believed was unlawful?
In the US military (and I would assume all militaries?) a servicemember must obey an order from a superior officer if the order is lawful; however, if complying would require the commission of a crime,...
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If issuers have to file Form D to easily sell shares of private company registered in USA , then are private company investments not "confidential?"
If issuers of securities have to file Form D to easily sell shares or make private placements of private company registered in USA , then are private company investments not "confidential? ...
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Grounds For Divorce in Massachusetts
If my wife wants to divorce me, does she need my consent? Does she need grounds - like I cheated (which I didn't and would never do).
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Can Meta create a Twitter clone?
Meta is about to release an app called Threads that has been labeled by news sources as a Twitter rival or Twitter clone.
I don't know how similar Threads actually is to Twitter, but hypothetically if ...
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Is the executive branch obligated to enforce the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action?
The Supreme Court ruled, on June 29, 2023, that under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, universities are obligated to treat all applicants fairly and not discriminate on the basis of race. ...
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Can a university continue with their affirmative action program by rejecting all government funding?
As per Why did CJ Roberts apply the Fourteenth Amendment to Harvard, a private school?, the ban on affirmative action only applies to schools that receive federal funding. So... could a school ...
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