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Reduce risk of large child support payments for life
Lets say hypothetically there is a man and a women. The man makes a relatively high income and is involved romantically with the women.
The women asks the man frequently to have a child with her. The ...
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Why aren't programming languages infringing IEEE's POSIX trademark?
POSIX is a standard for operating system API, trademarked by IEEE. It ensures "source-code" level compatibility between operating systems and applications. It receives triple designation and ...
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How are suits filed against federal officials under the First Amendment if there is no implied or express right of action?
I construe a right of action to be the ability to sue somebody for injunctive and monetary relief. If there isn't a right of action for the First Amendment like how Bivens provided a right of action ...
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US: Do I need to include my true, legal name on the website's TOS named after DBA?
I know that on contracts, it's best to sign as Legal Name of Owner, DBA Company Name, but does that need to show up in any of the company's website's Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, or TOS? For reference, ...
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When does name-calling become slanderous?
Usually, the difference between ordinary insults/name-calling and actionable slander is taken to be that non-actionable insults are either subjective statements that can't unambiguously be determined ...
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If involved in an accident, while uninsured, for which the other driver is insured, can the other insurance company turn them in?
A friend of a friend recently had this situation come up. They were driving uninsured as a result of one of their housemates having tossed the bills as they came in. They learned they were uninsured ...
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Should you ever speak with Police?
I've heard from many lawyers who give the legal advice of "Never talk to cops".
During traffic stops I give my required documents, let them know I will be remaining silent, and then don't ...
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Stopping a warrantless police search?
In general, how much can a person do to stop a warrantless search beyond verbally refusing consent? Is there anything further that can be done to prevent the search in the first place or make legal ...
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Is it legal to take items left by others on the side walk? [duplicate]
Locality: California, USA
In my city I often find belongings left on the sidewalk, things like old clothes, plastic bags sometimes filled with items inside, shopping carts, trash bags, etc. Most are ...
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What is the difference between the terms defendant and Respondent?
It seems that there is perhaps a trend toward less adversarial terminology, so I wonder if it is that defendant was a more traditional term used exclusively historically, while Respondent has now ...
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Is it normal for district judges first instance decisions to be appealed to circuit judges in other locations?
A judgment from clerkenwell and Shoreditch county court district judge (swan) was appealed to a circuit (?) judge in central London (Luba).
Isn’t the point of a circuit judge that they are the more ...
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Are coworking companies bound by legal precedent not to use the intellectual property nor trade secrets of its customers?
The companies which operate coworking facilities are in a position to learn a lot about a person's business. Every facility I've seen is blanketed with cameras, potentially including microphones, the ...
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Does due process require that the grounds for a conviction can be substantiated? [closed]
Update 1:
This question pertains specifically to law in the United States of America, more specifically criminal law. However, I reason it may be applicable to the law of other lands.
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The ...
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After being Justice of the UK Supreme Court from 2010-2, why did Lord John Dyson demote to Master of the Rolls from 2012-6?
Lord John Dyson was Master of the Rolls (President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Head of Civil Justice) for four years until he retired in October 2016. He was a Justice of the ...
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Where is the Houston anti-Food Sharing Ordinance?
Accoring to this article about the anti-Food Sharing Ordinance in Houston,
Mayor Anise Parker and city council passed an anti-food sharing ordinance that bans serving charitable meals on properties, ...
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What can the President of the United States do when a national emergency renders Congress unable to do its job? [closed]
A zombie virus is sweeping the nation! Every US Congressperson is either dead or in hiding. Either way, they're unreachable. Thankfully, we managed to keep the President and his Cabinet safe in ...
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How should the parenthesised components of statute names be pronounced?
For instance, consider the
Housing (tenancy deposits) (prescribed information) order 2007
(Which reads quite naturally just strung sequentially together).
Or the
Torts (interference with goods) act ...
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Can DBAs contain names that's not my name?
For example, let's say the legal name is Bob Ballad. Can a DBA be registered named Tom's Video Editing? And can a website be created named tomsvideoediting.com with the "About" page ...
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Can an ex girlfriend sue for unpaid utilities in her name? [closed]
My ex girlfriend moved out and the utilities were in her name and she paid them every month. Then she moved out and demanded I pay her the balance on the account after 4 months. I have my own ...
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Store claimed no returns without loyalty program
In British Columbia, is it legal to predicate a retail return with the receipt with having made the original purchase tied to a company loyalty program account? This already contradicts the receipt I ...
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If we use a generative AI to generate original images, can we use these images in a product that we sell?
Generative AI can create images. Assume that these images are totally original.
Would that mean that we would have the full rights to the images created by the AI? Could we use these images in a ...
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Is it legal to paraphrase a paid Wall Street Journal article in its entirety and publish the paraphrased article for free? [duplicate]
I know that in many countries republishing any web article from another website without consent is considered a form of plagery and copyright enfringement and is therefore illegal.
But I am looking to ...
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Is it legal to save a picture from the internet and then send it to my friends?
I'm talking about pictures of cats or flowers or a meme, nothing extreme. Is it technically legal or illegal for me to do this?
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defaming an anonymous person
Suppose there is someone only known by an avatar. Suppose no public information is available as to who is the real person behind the avatar.
My question is whether there is any case-law about whether ...
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what does article 65 of UN convention on corruption apply to? [closed]
article 65 claims
Each State Party may adopt more strict or severe measures than those
provided for by this Convention for preventing and combating corruption.this is in contrast to its requirements ...
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Could Julian Assange have elected for the portions of his extradition proceedings conducted at Westminster magistrates to have been in crown court?
Parts of the extradition proceedings thus far of Julian Assange have taken place in Woolwich Crown Court, others in the old Bailey, others like his post-triumph bail hearing and also monthly case ...
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Can my employer sue me for copyright infringement if the client owns the work product and copy rights? [closed]
I used to work for a company, and i was part of a team who produced work product for the clients. In the contract between the employer and client, it says that the client owns the rights, title, and ...
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If the police ask you a question, what response can you make that can't be used as evidence against you?
For one reason or another, a police officer has just asked you a question, and you've wisely decided not to provide any response that could be used against you in court. What can you say or do that ...
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What are the “protocols” to the ECHR?
The European convention of human rights has “protocols” to it. What essentially are these?
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Does property include money in the sense of ECHR right of peaceful enjoyment?
ECHR protocol 1 article 1 protects the right to peacefully enjoy one’s property. Does this include money? For example if one has frozen, seized or confiscated by fines, would this be Applicable as ...
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Does protocol 1 article 1 (peaceful enjoyment) cover charging of rent for another to occupy property?
I’m referring to the ECHR right of peaceful enjoyment of one’s property.
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Are there any EU countries in which it is not allowed as a matter of course to own (and let out) unlimited residential properties?
Underlying this question I would like to know if there is anything in the ECHR for example that inherently proscribes a country stigmatising to any degree the ownership of properties (perhaps beyond a ...
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Question about audio recording my in-person conversations in New York
In NY State, which is a 1 party consent state, can I audio record a conversation with my friend without their consent if they are a minor? ( I'm 18, he's 17 )
I was told minors can't consent to being ...
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Before being overturned, did Roe v Wade grant pregnant men the right to have abortions, in addition to pregnant women?
The language in the Roe v Wade decision refers over and over to the rights of a "pregnant woman". Does this mean it protected only the rights of pregnant women, and not pregnant men, to ...
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Would door to door gun confiscation in the United States be considered constitutional? [closed]
The day has come for all gun owners in the United States. The President issues an executive order saying all guns will be considered illegal and they have 24 hrs to turn them in. All Federal, state ...
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Selling eggs along the road, unmanned [closed]
I have chickens at my property and they are great at producing egg. However a problem I have is that they produce way to many eggs for my family's need. I have heard that is a common mistake to make ...
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How can anti-hate-speech laws be inconsistent with the First Amendment when (for instance) libel laws are consistent with it?
Although the first article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States states that
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech
this proscription is far from absolute, as ...
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Does the First Amendment apply to amateur radio?
Is speech over amateur radio constitutionally protected? Could I theoretically sue the FCC for the right to broadcast music on 20 meters, and have a chance of winning on free speech grounds? If the ...
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Can a B2B outbound sales lead generation company legally capture and sell publicly available information without the consent of the leads?
I am researching the business model of a B2B outbound sales lead generation company that captures publicly available information for professionals such as name, company email, LinkedIn, Twitter, ...
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AI News Summary, Fair Use? [duplicate]
Can the use of AI to automatically summarize news content and posting on a blog be considered fair use under copyright law, and what factors should be considered in determining whether such use ...
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What's the legality (and potential recourse) of selling something as Tuna that isn't Tuna at all
In the US many sushi places sell "white tuna" which actually isn't a Tuna at all but Escolar, a fish from a different family and genus. That seems to be primarily a popular marketing ploy: ...
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What is the legal distinction between watching a YouTube video in a browser and downloading it for personal use? [duplicate]
If the act of watching a YouTube video creates a temporary download in my internet cache, why is it illegal to use an app that intercepts the YouTube API to download music videos to listen to later ...
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My wife took my stimulus money while I was incarcerated [closed]
Stimulus money taken while I was incarcerated
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Does punishing someone illegally for their wrongdoing forfeit the right to seek compensation?
Jim the Bicycler, unfortunately, can sometimes be rather reckless. And as a result of his reckless cycling he hit Joe the Pedestrian, then fled. There is no doubt that Jim is fully responsible for the ...
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Band from a supermarket for 6months which terms into 12months and another 12months what can I do to stop this [closed]
I was band from a supermarket for first it was not letting a worker check my bag of the property and then it was shoplifting and then it was trying to assault the management and then it was ...
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did the International Criminal Tribunal for Rawanada have the power to grant pardons and remissions?
the information on it that I've found so far doesn't have any information on this aspect. it appears they had desvretion to decide which setances to pass up to life imprisonment but did it have broad ...
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What happens if an international student doesn’t pay rent and then leaves the country? [closed]
Already moved out of an unhabitable apartment 4 months ago. Can’t really sue or break lease (at least I don’t think) cause I messed up. What happens if I stop paying rent?
Location: PA, USA
Okay, here’...
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Is it legal to use force against a person who is trying to stop you from rescuing another person?
Alice has been severely injured or is otherwise in danger. Eve wants to help Alice, but Bob is somehow preventing her from getting to Alice. Assume that Bob is not threatening to harm Eve; he is only ...
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Do NDAs apply to all future interactions between the two parties or just the next one?
A follow up to the question is an NDA binding for sex worker or escorts?
If someone hired an escort (or sex worker) and had her sign an NDA stating that she will not divulge their relationship, and ...
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Is the saying that "cops can use anything you say against you" overstated or understated?
Is everything one says to a cop in the course of an enquiry really admissable as evidence against them? Even if they deny allegations? Why is that?
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