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Questions about teaching an online course about a copyrighted game
I’m trying to put together a Udemy class about playing (winning ; )) a Zynga game (Words With Friends). I know that there are people who have written e-books about the same, but I want to make sure I’...
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The State of Ohio closed the polls last minute. Can I sue my city?
Due to COVID-19, the Ohio governor's office issued a decision on March 16th that the polls would be closed on March 17th and voting suspended until June 2nd. To my knowledge, this was despite a ...
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Can judges impute income in debt cases?
I have a money judgment against a stripper for a few thousand dollars. All her income is in cash and she reports nothing on her 1099. Can I ask the judge to impute her 10-20k monthly that she ...
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I'm a trans woman. When can I deregister from the American draft registry?
When I was 18, I received a scary form from the Department of Defense telling me I had to sign up for something called “Selective Service” (or face prison time and other things). Not knowing any ...
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Landlord rights in case of tenant death in Germany
In the shadow of recent virus outbreak, I could not help but to think about my landlord’s rights if I happen to die.
I can imagine that the German law has this covered. Can someone please point it ...
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Is it legal to use “VMware Workstation 15 Player” with earning money purpose?
I am planning to open a blog webpage, publish technology-based content on it and make money via blogger earning methods like Google AdSense. The software I mentioned in the title, which is available ...
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Gathering bans and Churches
With bans on gatherings due to the virus, can the government close churches or are they exempt due to seperation laws?
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Individual vs. corportate liability for inherently dangerous activities
These days a lot of people make their living on YouTube, doing inherently dangerous things and filming them. For instance, there's those people who climb up unfinished skyscapers without any safety ...
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Tax Implication of COVID-19 Induced Remote Employment
A U.S. company has instructed it's employees to work from home for a period extending 4 weeks following city and state guidelines as a necessary precaution in response to COVID-19. Subsequently ...
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Do American states have the power to close their borders from other states in a health emergency?
Right now there are large American states which have 50 times more Coronavirus cases in ratio/proportion than others, with hundreds of cases close to a thousand, and there are even small states where ...
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Can pedestrians enter a marked crosswalk at an angle or cross the street without entering the marked path AND still have right-of-way?
Scenario:
There is a controlled crosswalk.
The walking sign is on.
Rather than cross the street via the path, you cross adjacent to it OR you cross at an angle initially and enter the path.
If a ...
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How to anonymize network data packets for commercial use?
I am working on a project where I have to identify anomalies in network traffic of business networks with machine learning. The algorithm is feeded with captured network packets from inside of the ...
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Illegal to threaten suicide in California?
I live in California and today I was at a store where they overcharged me for a product (the product was literally marked a different price than what they keyed in). I didn't catch it until it had ...
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Fifth Amendment and Mandatory Shelter in Place
Several counties in California have issued a shelter in place order due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For example, see a Santa Clara’s order here.
The order states that individuals have to ...
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Is a minor liable to pay old dues to his father on attaining majority?
I had some stepfathers and an equal number of fostermothers in my life. My Stepfathers used to work in customs and central excise department of the government of INDIA. They used to be transferred ...
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Why do statutes of limitations exist?
I don't understand: why artificially create a set of deadlines before which one crime or another can be brought to the conviction stage? Why not be able to investigate and prosecute for an indefinite ...
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Does PHI need to contain health information PLUS one of the 18 identifiers?
I've worked for various healthcare companies and found there's a wide range of interpretation to what protected HIPAA data is. It should be more cut and dry, but in actual practice it seems to be a ...
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Can I be legally compelled, in the U.S., to return/destroy old work emails that are on my own laptop?
I used to work remotely and had my own hardware, etc. The company used Microsoft exchange (or similar) to run their email, store it on servers, etc. They killed my email account when I left but all my ...
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How are social security numbers protected when someone has a judgment?
Creditor can order the debtors 1099, w2, income statements etc with a court order.
How are the debtors ssns going to be protected?
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Statutory authority to order business to close their doors
In Maryland, Governor Hogan just ordered with "the full force of law" all restaurants, bars, movie theaters, gyms, etc. to close their doors to the public starting at 5 p.m.
What is his statutory ...
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What are the charges faced for sexting minor overseas?
One of my friends(18) was in an online relationship with a girl(15) overseas. They were sexting each other for about a year until he broke off contact with her, realizing the mistake he made. He ...
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Why don't governments and private companies sue China for economic and life losses due to COVID-19 (corona virus)?
We are witnessing the financial and personal repercussions of the spread of the corona virus that originated in Wuhan. It seems that the virus started spreading possibly as early as mid-November with ...
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Planning on signing a new apartment lease - can I get back a nonrefundable holding deposit due to natural disaster (i.e. COVID-19)?
Recently I put down a holding deposit for an apartment I intend to move into next month (April 1). However, with the spread of COVID-19, moving in 2 weeks' time could be risky, or potentially ...
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Are you Legally Allowed to add a Screenshot to Google Drive and Create a Sharing Link for Proof?
Let's give this for an example:
Billy lives in Oregon. Somebody said something in a non-logged chat, and Billy wants to prove they said it. He adds a photo to his Google Drive without the person's ...
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Can a worker capable of performing job functions from home be terminated for avoiding office due to COVID–19?
There's a popular thread on Twitter in light of COVID–19 that brings attention to all the workplaces where people could work from home (due to being tech/knowledge workers), but, for one reason or ...
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What exactly does "It is a defense to prosecution" mean?
Consider the Texas Child Safety Laws found here: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm#545.412
It says in one place:
(c) It is a defense to prosecution under this section ...
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Was the 2014 Ukrainian revolution legal?
In Russian state propaganda (especially right after the event), the so-called Revolution of Dignity was often described as an illegal coup. There were several federal elections in Ukraine after that ...
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Can my accountant bill me for previous work he agreed to perform for free?
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I can provide more context to the story (question), but I also want to keep it short. I have been paying my accountant for helping with my corporate taxes for the last 4 years in Toronto. I ...
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CC BY 4.0 vs CC BY-SA 4.0
I'm confused by the difference between CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA (4.0?)
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I found some books shared with CC BY 4.0. I want to publish these books in my book-reading app (commercial product) but ...
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Is opening a blog, publishing technological/educational content on it and earning money via blogger earning methods like AdSense legal?
I am planning to open a blog website and publish technology-based educational content as articles in Turkish language on it. Topics I'll cover are Microsoft and Linux system administration, cyber ...
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What are my legal options against an illegal construction in a public place that I use?
Last Thursday night, while walking near a public prayer house that I usually visit, I was surprised to see some 20 people, some of whom are neighbors, doing illegal construction activities. Those ...
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Would continuing asking one to provide rationale violate freedom of thought?
From the psychological aspect, there are many people with implicit attitude, prejudice, cognitive distortion, etc. The common factor is that they are unwilling to consider the possibility that their ...
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What are the legal consequences if caught violating the COVID-19 Metro Manila curfew from 2020-03-15 to 2020-04-14?
What are the legal consequences if caught violating the COVID-19 Metro Manila curfew from 2020-03-15 to 2020-04-14?
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Mail for Nonexistent Person? [duplicate]
Suppose I receive a piece of mail addressed to my house with my last name, but with a first name I have never heard of. (I don’t know anyone with that name.)
It's from an organization I do have a ...
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Online Proctoring, Exams, and the GDPR?
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, my university has tentatively canceled all live forms of live education, including exams. Instead, they have decided to hold exams through an online proctoring ...
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Facebook vs GDPR - Is Facebook never deleting the Searches you do?
I frequently delete the Search History from my account's Activity Log.
However, every time I start typing in Search, Facebook seems to remember perfectly searches I've done in the past.
Suggestions ...
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Is the weight of the container included in the weight of drugs?
In this video a suspect has a can of soda with a bag of cocaine inside. While trying to get the guy to admit to possession, a police officer tells the suspect that the weight of the entire package ...
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Did Thomas Jefferson write the Virginia Constitution in such a way that parts of the state can leave the state?
Jerry Falwell, Jr, president of Liberty University, appeared on Fox and Friends on 13 March 2020, being interviewed about, among other things, "Vexit", a plan proposed by some West Virginians and ...
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How can the date for the 2020 US census legally be changed?
The next US census is scheduled for 2020-04-01. In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic it might become necessary to delay this. How can this legally be done (since the census is required by the ...
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Is it legal to purposefully contract COVID-19?
I may have a number of reasons for wanting to intentionally expose myself to the coronavirus. (Examples: I feel more capable of surviving it while I am younger. It reduces my ability to carry and ...
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Dating corporate banking resolution
I've started a US / California corporation for my company and have almost instantly come up to an issue I do not know how to address.
In order to open a Bank account, the board (just me) has to agree ...
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Can the CDC stop the state of New York from testing for COVID-19?
At the end of this video NY Governor, Andrew Cuomo, criticizes the CDC for "not letting" the state of New York and other laboratories test for COVID-19.
What did he mean by that? Does the CDC have ...
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Can a contract signed as an act of submission rather than consent be considered invalid?
Please consider the following situation:
A (USA) company makes an offer to a (UK) individual.
The company purchases an inbound ticket for the individual.
The individual arrives.
The individual ...
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Will my speeding ticket in Arizona be enforced abroad?
Good evening,
as a tourist from outside the U.S., I got pulled over for speeding near Page, AZ (outside urbanized area) today. I went 80 instead of 65. My bad. The officer gave me a ticket and asked ...
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Can an EU country close its border (rather than introduce temporary border control)?
Title III chapter II of the Schengen border control code describes the possibility of reintroducing temporary border controls, but I can't find what basis there is to remove the right to free movement ...
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What laws apply to Visa holders in the US?
I'm a French citizen currently staying in Los Angeles for studies under an F1 Visa.
I was told that in the US, only federal law applies to foreigners which is why despite Pot being legalized in ...
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Ombudsman for car rentals in the UK
Hypothetically, suppose person A purchased a service B from company C in the UK. If person A believes they were mis-sold the service, they could start a case with the The Financial Ombudsman Service ...
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Can pest service provider cancel contract without reason and keep payment in excess of $1000?
The issue is two fold, I overpaid this pest control company by mistake (4 years worth), the first phone call, they said it shouldn't be a problem but no one called back. I called 7 times before ...
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Does a U.S. District judge's decision set binding horizontal precedent in the same district?
Suppose a U.S. district judge in, say, the Southern district of New York writes a decision regarding some legal procedure. Can a different U.S. district judge in the same district write a ...
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What can we do with people still travel under corona pandemic?
What can we do with those people who still decided to travel (for skiing, example) and causing huge problems after they return, even though they know the fact that corona virus (or anything new in the ...
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