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Is there such a thing as citizens arrest in international waters?
Say someone knows for CERTAIN that a speedboat in international waters is carrying something illegal can they do a citizens arrest and stop the boat ? And then hand it over to the navy or police ?
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Clarification of unpaid breaks and OT
I'm reflecting on my experiences from many years ago, when I worked in a restaurant in California. A common shift would have me clock in at 11am, work until 640pm, then punch out for two consecutive ...
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What types of legal reasons may motivate online platforms to ban users who are found to have committed serious offences [closed]
According to media reports, Theo Bertram, vice president of public policy Europe at TikTok, said his company is “committed to providing a space that embraces gender equity, supports healthy ...
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Is the public domain revocable?
If a work enters the public domain, can someone "privatize" it by trying to copyright/trademark/etc. the same work without changes?
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Living Revocable Trust and Death
If a person dies with a living revocable trust then that trust becomes irrevocable at the date of death. When it becomes irrevocable, does the date the trust was created change?
That is, if a person ...
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Can one hold a video playback device in public that shows pornography in the U.S.?
Alice stands in a public square holding a television that shows pornographic video content. Is she protected by the first amendment?
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Must Alice provide ingredients for baked goods she sells produced by a third party
Alice’s Restaurant sells pastries prepared by Bob’s bakery but when asked for ingredients listing she suggests that a customer look at Bob’s bakery’s website or if that fails then even looking to its ...
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Is a relationship consultant an introduction agent?
With regard to Part 5.1 (starting on page 81) of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 regarding introduction agents, I have the following hypothetical question:
Let us suppose that ...
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In UK, how hard can you hold a builder to their quoted price?
I was hoping to have some building work done in England and got two quotes: I would have liked three or four, but it was quite enough work to get two. To my surprise, they different hugely: one was ...
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Which countries law applies in online defamation?
Let's say Person A who lives in Germany writes defamatory statements on Twitter, incorporated in the US, about Person B who lives in Thailand.
Person B suffers damage abroad as a result of the Tweets. ...
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Right of Way NY [closed]
I have a property in NY state that is deeded with a right of way across the edge of a neighboring property.
When I bought the property the access path was stone and a clear road. Over the summer the ...
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Do the articles of the human rights act or ECHR have any set orders of precedent when it comes to balancing rights that mutually conflict?
I guess I imagine that absolute deemed rights would take precedence over others’ relatives deemed rights but beyond this is there any further more granular order of precedence for resolving conflicts?
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Recording patients in a Physical Therapy Clinic
Consider a hypothetical physical therapy clinic in California. It is my understanding that it would be against the laws of the clinic to video tape the patients without their knowledge. Please ...
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Is one witness all that's needed to prove a civil case?
So a couple of weeks ago I parked at my apartment building and when I came back to my car the following day, I found a note that I had hit the car beside me when I parked and that the other party had ...
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Is it lawful to have a dating website that is free for women but charges men initiation +membership fees?
An American dating platform charges men an up front fee for “verification” and then an ongoing monthly fee for “membership,” while openly stating that “membership is free for women”. Is this ...
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Can a US govt lawyer become judge?
Can a person who has an attorney-client relationship with the US Government (typically, an licensed lawyer employed by the govt) ethically become a judge in the US?
If so, how is the apparent conflict ...
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Is it true that common law courts will not resolve a question without a controversy?
Is it true that common law courts will not resolve a question without a controversy and will not give governments pre-emptive advice on the legality of laws or regulations?
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Is it possible to prosecute Booking.com if a scam was done by another party through their portal?
Due to an in app message request to verify my credit card on Bookingcom I lost a lot of money. I reported it to my bank, Booking.com and the property whose account was compromised.The transaction was ...
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using external images of multiple different licenses in a single document-oriented project
I am working on a project to create (in PDF) letter charts for children for alphabet learning. This involves a number of different pictures from different sources (but mostly Wikipedia) and different ...
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When and how did the adversarial aspect of the criminal justice system originate, and to what extent is/was it actually adversarial?
As I understand, originally all judicial courts derived their authority from the crown. So too, was the prosecutor in criminal matters referred to as “the crown.” So the crown is both the judge and ...
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What is the principle underlying prosecution costs orders?
The most obvious rationale would be a sense that the public purse should not suffer for the crimes of an individual, while the cost of prosecuting and giving a fair trial to an ultimately innocent ...
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Why would someone who is charged with murder appear before Westminster (or any other) Magistrates Court?
According to media reports, NX121 is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court. But isn’t murder an indictable only offence?
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Business overcharged me: Can I refuse to pay?
Say a business overcharges me. Examples:
Cleaner quoted me a price of $50, but failed to mention it was actually $50 per hour so the total bill was $200 instead of the $50 I expected.
Restaurant ...
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Can a government lawyer's duty of loyalty be ended in Canada?
I assume the following:
A lawyer employed by the Government of Canada (GC) has an attorney-client relationship with GC.
The "attorney" is the lawyer, the "client" is "...
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In the U.S., can a higher court request to review the legal case of a lower court without request for review by non-court members?
I was reading about certiorari, and I was under the impression that courts have the authority to request to review a legal case of a lower court without someone, such as a party to the case, ...
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What is the statutory basis for the existence of "judicial advisory committees" in Canada?
The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs states, on its website, that one of its responsibilities is related to the appointment of federal judges:
managing the Judicial ...
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Can I be sued for evading a ban on a web forum? [duplicate]
I participate on a web forum where I have received multiple bans. The first ban was because people didn't like what I wrote, the subsequent bans have been because I had already been banned and the ...
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Why send a notice to evict if the tenant has already left?
My wife and I were living at an apartment complex in Michigan with property managers from hell. Long story short, we decided it was worth leaving the lease early. There was a lease contract buy-out ...
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What Act of Parliament established the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs in Canada?
The website of the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada states that the office was established in 1978, but gives no reference to the statutory provision that establishes it.
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Does a person have a right to a bench trial?
There is the famous right to be tried by a jury of your peers, but do you also have the right to a bench trial, if you prefer?
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What is the correct term to describe a party to an action who is really only a sock puppet for the party's legal counsel and expert witness?
I have encountered a situation where one of the parties (a government department) is actually forced into their position by a combination of their legal counsel (DOJ) and expert witness (law ...
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What is the most likely offence, if any, committed in England by vegan extremists displaying graphic footage of slaughter in public?
Vegan activist groups such as “anonymous for the voiceless” go out to public places in order to openly display video footage of gruesome cruelty to animals, materials showing sexual abuse of animals, ...
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Would the proposed "Stop Pot Act," as it is currently written, actually do anything if passed?
H.R. 5323, the "Stop Pot Act," is a bill currently in the 118th Congress to discourage states from legalizing recreational use of marijuana by cutting their federal highway funding by 10%. ...
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What Would be the Legality of a Company Paying Individuals for their Data?
Let's say I started a new social media company, which collects and sells it's users' data. To entice people to use my social media site, I give them a cut of the money that I get from selling that ...
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is Trump writing to-do lists to assistants on classified cards legally classified as illegal disclosure/distribution/dissemination of classified info?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113 has witness statements that claim that former President Trump was using the backside of briefing ...
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Why is it that the output of "generative AI" is not copyrightable? [duplicate]
From what I have heard in recent news stories, the courts have so far ruled that output of generative AI is not copyrightable.
We seem to allow the output of other types of computer algorithms to be ...
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How would mathematical demonstratives be used in a court?
I remember in a children´s show when I was little that one episode featured a court case where the villain was accused of having too much land area in contravention of the laws of the town they were ...
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What was the closest parallel to common assault prior to CJA 1988?
Common assault appears to have been defined by statute in the criminal Justice act 1988. How were comparable incidents prosecuted before this?
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What is the statute of limitations for making false police reports?
Meet Alice. Alice knowingly made false reports to the police. For how long after this occurrence may this crime be reported and proceeded against Alice for?
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Is there a software license that says anyone can do what they want with it except sell it or sell modified versions of it? [migrated]
From what I can tell GPL lets folks modify your code and sell it and MIT lets them do whatever they want.
I plan on charging for my application. I am okay if someone wants to tweak it and use it for ...
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Is it legal to do lots of imports £1 below the limit to not have to pay import duty?
Recently (since Brexit?) the UK tax law has been changed to require foreign online retailers like AliExpress to charge UK VAT @ 20% at the point of sale.
If an order is placed for > £135 then as ...
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What charges could someone have by committing registration fraud?
I just found out my ex common law partner registered a car under my name without my permission in Alberta. I found out as I received a speeding ticket ($198 fine) in the mail with a picture of her ...
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As a business owner, how to let customers know that inside the store, the workers and owner may be wearing Body Camera?
Many small businesses in California have faced increasing challenges due to Proposition 47 and the COVID-19 pandemic. Since small businesses are typically private establishments, owners have the ...
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Legality of charging customer service for one’s time spent dealing with them
An acquaintance has a practice of charging companies’ customer service departments £50 per 30 minute increments of his time spent addressing issues with them on the phone. I don’t think he’s ever ...
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Can a parking management company change the 'reason for issue' of a ticket
I moved into a block of flats and was given a parking token by the previous resident. The token has the date of the issue, the name of the block of flats, but no expiry date and no registration. The ...
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In which European countries can an 18-year-old irregular migrant complete their final year of secondary school?
According to Page 2 of the the Platform for International Cooperation in Undocumented Immigrants document submitted to the UN and titled "Undocumented Children: Barriers to Accessing Social ...
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If an unlawful search uncovers evidence unrelated to the subject of the search, can the subject have the evidence suppressed?
So, I binged on the Illustrated Guide To Law a while back, and I have been wondering about this page. In it, a defendant's right to object to a search is denied because he didn't have standing to ...
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Are there any limitations on a congressperson's freedom of speech in Congress?
The Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution protects senators' and representatives' right to freedom of speech when debating in Congress, separately from the First Amendment freedom of speech ...
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Can the spouse of an EU citizen legally work in France before they obtain a carte de séjour?
Let us suppose an EU citizen, who is not French, resides in France. According to the EU directive 2004/38/EC on the freedom of movement and residence rights of EU citizens and their family members, ...
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If my roommates use more utilities than me, am I legally allowed to pay less? [closed]
I live with three roommates. My roommates use much more electricity than I do and are constantly wasting energy, which means our utility bill is high. The bill is in the name of one of my roommates, ...