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Is there any limit to the US federal government's power to cede territory through the Treaty Clause?
The Boundary Treaty of 1970 ceded to Mexico the Horcón Tract, a piece of land that was part of the state of Texas. (In fact, it even had inhabitants at the time.)
It's been claimed that the consent of ...
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How does spousal immigration sponsorship work if the immigrating spouse can work remotely?
I'm looking at the income requirements for bringing a foreign spouse to the US, and I understand it's meant to ensure the immigrant doesn't become a burden on the state. Does this income requirement ...
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Can brandishing a weapon constitute assault?
In the terminology of criminal law, can brandishing a weapon constitute assault? Or is it merely a threat of assault?
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Can attempted murder be a predicate crime in felony murder? [duplicate]
Say I hire someone to kill my wife, but my wife gets the better of him and kills him in self-defense.
I am guilty of at least attempted murder. Could I also be guilty of
Murder (presumably second-...
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Is there a law against biohacking your pet?
Biohacking, particularly the self administration of genetic modification tools such as CRISPR, has become somewhat popular in recent years with advancements in genetic engineering technology. While ...
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Can police offer an “immune interview”?
I feel like I heard about this idea somewhere, but I can’t remember if it’s a real thing or what the correct name for it is.
Let’s say Bob was committing a crime, and while doing so, he witnessed Fred ...
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How strict a lease agreement is executed in the US for student housing? [closed]
As an international student who has recently relocated to the US for my studies, I’ve signed the lease and moved into my apartment. However, I’ve noticed a few discrepancies between the lease ...
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If students use academic licenses to perform work for commercial firms, but as part of class projects, is that a license violation?
Assume that a university has a program that solicits computing projects from industry partners. These projects are directly in service of the commercial entities' businesses. The organizations may or ...
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Using .pdf files of Copyrighted Works That Are Freely Available Online [closed]
I am a high school student and passionate about pure math.
I was able to procure my collection of pure mathematics books by purchasing them at a discount price at garage sales, bookstores, book sales, ...
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Legal status of copyright licenses
From what I understand, a copyright is granted by a governing body - thus the copyright owner presumably must choose from a set of offered copyright filings. Alternatively, they are assigned one based ...
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A man hires someone to murders his wife, but she kills the attacker in self-defense. What crime has the husband committed?
Just today I watched a movie. A husband wants his wife dead and hires a killer. She manages to kill her attacker in self defence but the police and a jury don’t believe her and she is convicted for ...
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Breaking a trade embargo
Say country "A" has an embargo against purchasing items from country "B" . John Doe is a private businessman who is interested in doing business with country "B" anyway. ...
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A thought crime?
What happens if I come to police and tell them I want to steal some goods from supermarket?
Same if I tell them I want to kill someone (without threatening a specific person).
Let's also assume I am ...
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Is it a crime to use a scam driving licence as ID online?
There is a question on Travel.SE about an apparent "international driving permit" that is confirmed in an answer to be a very well known scam. However it does appear to provide a card that ...
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Is there a way to make a generic statement that complies with GDPR Article 14 2. (f)
My understanding is that many companies attempt to comply with all or most of the "information that must be provided to the data subject" requirements with a single generic Privacy Notice. ...
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What does "hypothecate" mean?
I was asked to look over a draft "power of attorney" for things like incorrect names. In it was the following paragraph:
2.1 Property: To purchase, receive, take possession of, lease, sell,...
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Civil Asset Forfeiture in dispute with large American company - Justification, Protection, and Spouse's Assets [closed]
I recently read about a case where the government seized assets from a former employee of a large corporation (Amazon) based on allegations of "honest services fraud" stemming from a ...
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Is it illegal to allow (verbally) someone to do action that may kill them?
Here is example I am interested in: Bob has a cup that he knows is filled with poison and apple juice. He places the cup on a table. Another person Andrew asks Bob if he can drink that apple juice (...
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Can signing up for a service waive all future rights to sue a company or its subsidiaries
I saw a recent article that was talking about signing up for a Disney+ account waives your right to sue Disney and it subsidiaries as as there is a binding arbitration clause in the user agreement. Is ...
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Are there jurisdictions where an uninvolved party can appeal a court decision?
I recently read about an outrageous court decision in my country where the prosecution only asked for a 2500€ fine for a dad for torturing his kids for years. The defendant obviously agreed to it (it'...
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Clarification on Copyright and Usage Rights for Logo Created with Purchased Font [duplicate]
I am planning to purchase a font from a website that also provides logo creation services using the font. The license agreement for the font allows for "Logos & Branding for commercial use.&...
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Can two people sign a agreement without a lawyer
So can two people sign a known sperm donor agreement they make themselves without lawyers if they have a witness and it's for at home insemination in Maine we don't want to get lawyers involved and we ...
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Is a user considered liable if its user accounts on social networks are hacked and used to post illegal content?
If a user account from a social network that the original user didn't use for a long time gets hacked, and then used to post illegal content (e.g. terrorist material, sexually explicit material, etc.),...
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How do inter-country differences in IP law interact with global companies and internet services? [duplicate]
Intellectual property laws vary by country, but are enforceable to some extent internationally. When we are talking about potentially tortuous actions taken by companies that can operate anywhere in ...
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Does the First Amendment protect deliberately publicizing the incorrect date for an election?
I know that most forms of lying are protected by the First Amendment, but there are some narrow exceptions.
Does the First Amendment protect deliberately publicizing the incorrect date of an election, ...
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Has the application of a law ever being appealed anywhere due to the lawmakers not knowing what they were voting/ruling?
Suppose a lawmaker presents a law project, with a highly technical vocabulary, and effectively most of the lawmakers don't really understand what they are voting, even though they think so or pretend ...
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Litigating against US government as a foreigner outside the US fully remotely-possible?
So I have a couple of q's on how district courts in the US operate in cases when a foreigner is suing a government agency in a civil proceeding. Firstly, do district courts generally allow for a fully ...
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Can a Statute of Limitations claim be rejected by the court?
Suppose a Catholic organization in a Western country runs one or more childrens' homes. The idea is to provide good care of orphans, poor children and children of minorities. In reality there is poor ...
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Can police break down your door for an unpaid fine warrant for a misdemeanor disorderly house?
If a person had a warrant issued for not showing up in court or paying a fine for a misdemeanor charge of having a disorderly house, would the police be legally allowed to make a forced entry to ...
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When would it be legal to ask back (parts of) the salary?
Based on this question, where the OP was asked to pay back parts of his salary in cash: I have a hard time imagining any legal reason why an employer could ask back parts of already payed salaries. ...
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I need to better understand this clause in an independent contract agreement for Waiverability:
This is the clause I would like to understand:
"Waiver by either Party of any breach by the other Party of any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of any other or subsequent ...
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Are AI-based reproductions of fictional character subject to the copyright?
Services like Character.ai allows users to create custom characters using language model fine-tuning, based on instructions provided by its users. Are the fictional characters created by the users of ...
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If I escalate a FERPA amendment request, what happens if key evidence(waivers), was lost/destroyed during transition to digital + retention policies? [closed]
I discovered information that poses a risk to my privacy due to what I believe was an improper disclosure. I requested to review my education record and obtain documents to support my claim, but the ...
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Can a district judge leave the litigated tax issue for IRS to decide because the former doesn't have enough expertise?
Let's say I'm in a dispute with IRS about the tax they assessed on me and administrative resolution is going nowhere. I'm disputing the whole sum assessed and arguing that no tax is due period. I'm ...
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Possible to petition at district court/court of federal claims against IRS after losing in tax court?
A quick question. So assume I petition against IRS in tax court and then the court rules in favor of IRS. And then I also lose the appeals process at tax court. So let's say I then pay the tax I'm ...
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What counts as a pet?
Consider a hypothetical home owner's association (HOA) with deed covenants that restrict use of the property. Suppose one of the deed convents says the owner can have only two pets. What I am ...
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IP rights when a contracted PhD or research fellow makes accidental/incidental discovery
This question arises from a matter raised on SE Academia.
It clearly has strictly legal as well as academic aspects. So I will raise it here.
Basically a PhD or research fellow has a university ...
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Does legislation in India allow electronic communication devices to be in stand-by when driving?
Jurisdiction: Union of India
Legislation/s: Central Motor Vehicles Act, Motor Vehicles Rules
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Section 184 of the Motor Vehicles Act: States that whoever drives a
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Overstaying a schengen Visa and its respective legal consequences [migrated]
This was my first time I travel abroad and the first time I have been to Europe. I received a Schengen Visa for a short stay in Germany. I made unintentionally a mistake by overstaying my visa. I ...
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Can I continue using technology after it is patented
Let’s say I use a very specific software communication technique applied in a novel way that could be patented. I don’t patent this invention because I am a startup that has little money to invest in ...
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How exactly does 36 U.S. Code § 220506 apply in USOPC vs Prime Hydration?
In paragraph/section 10 (as listed in the PDF of the lawsuit I found here) it states Congress gave the USOPC exclusive rights to a number of things in regards to commercially exploiting the Olympic ...
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What barriers to the public internet do police have that citizens do not?
The Guardian reports in reference to police action against the far right instigators of the recent violence:
The strict rules on evidence gathering for police and government bodies made it harder for ...
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Is it legal to take a copyrighted test, modify it, then distribute it for free? [duplicate]
There is a psychological test called the YSQ. It is copyrighted, and one needs a license to use it.
In 2021, a revised version called YSQ-R was created by a different person. In the YSQ-R, some ...
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Telling the cops what my employer is doing [duplicate]
I worked in a disreputable computer store. We sold fake cache chips that were supposed to speed up the computer but didn't do anything at all. I declined to sell them and assumed I would be fired, but ...
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Could a country hand its Prisoners of War to another country to avoid having to guard them?
Assume Ruritania and Evilstan are at war. Due to circumstances, the Ruritanian 1st Chasseurs take a substantial amount of the Evilstanian 101st Armor Rifle Battalion as prisoners of war (PoW). Even as ...
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If I buy a piece of property with a trailer pad, and that pad is occupied, and the trailer occupying the pad is excluded from the sale, can I junk it?
The small [12-14 foot] travel trailer has a hitch lock, wheels and flat tires, it may be licensed (something that only requires paying a fee to the state) but the tail lights have been removed and it ...
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How a tribunal might see a failure to disclose documents
Imagine the following hypothetical case in the UK.
An employee X raises concerns while employed at an organisation Z. X loses their job at Z, discovers later that those concerns fall under the legal ...
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Pursuing statutory damages for copyright violation from AI use
This is hypothetical; not something I'm dealing with actively.
My understanding is that even if I don't profit from a copyright I hold, I can still sue for statutory damages if someone violates that ...
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Can one make prospective Subject Access Requests?
In the case an individual has an ongoing relationship with a company where data is collected and processed frequently one can make repeated Subject Access Requests (SAR) for free as long as they are ...
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Can one request all data sent by a smart meter under the GDPR?
There is a youtube video describing the data that is sent by smart meters. While it is not clear exactly how much data is transfered, it seems to be quite a bit, it changes channels every half second ...
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