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There is no law that prohibits the owner of private property from controlling access to their property, with respect to firearms, so anybody other than the government can prohibit firearms on their property. This is affirmed in Chan v. City of Seattle, 164 Wn. App. 549, Pacific Northwest Shooting Park Association v. City of Sequim, 158 Wn.2d 342 and Cherry v....
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I think the officer is probably lying, not just mistaken, but they are not required to always be truthful. In addition to the law against possessing ID with intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any crime, it is also against the law to be knowingly in possession of a stolen credit card, or any other property. An example of a strict-liability possession crime, ...
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Looking at Washington's Identity Theft statute RCW 9.35.020
No person may knowingly obtain, possess, use, or transfer a means of identification or financial information of another person, living or dead, with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any crime.
So, just possessing someone else's credit card is not a crime as long as one does not have the ...
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I have already contacted a lawyer and paid all the money I had and
they didn't help me resolve anything, the guy just talked to me for a
little bit. He essentially just took my $600 and no action was made.
He said the best thing to do would be to wait it out because the
contracts were never fulfilled by them and they can't claim my
inventions etc ...
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Publishing government records is pretty classic First Amendment-protected activity. Keeping in mind that one can find a lawyer to sue for anything, I think that person would likely be operating well within the law.
One thing in particular that I'd recommend staying aware of is how one might attempt to monetize this endeavor. There have been a lot of sites ...
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As specified in the Public Records Act, under RCW 42.56.050 "invasion of privacy" (which is restricted by law) only arises when the content
(1) Would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (2) is not
of legitimate concern to the public.
In publishing such information would be an invasion of privacy, it is not subject to public inspection under ...
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It is illegal to sell alcohol to a minor in Washington (RCW 66.44.270). The seller can get into various kinds of trouble, including losing their license, under liquor board regulations. However, as long as the establishment follows the rules for acceptable ID, they escape liability if in fact they sell alcohol to a minor: the license holder is legally ...
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I would be careful that no records belong to EU citizens, as it would likely be illegal under GDPR to have their information without their specific permission, and giving them the right to have it removed.
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You do not automatically have the right to trial by jury in traffic court. The government only requires courts to allow trials by jury when it is not a petty offense.
Refer to Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968):
Crimes carrying possible penalties up to six months do not require a jury trial if they otherwise qualify as petty offenses, Cheff v. ...
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According to the Washington State Department of Licensing website, you have 30 days to get your Washington State drivers license from the time you establish residency in Washington. You are considered to have established residency if you do any of the following:
Register to vote
Receive state benefits
Get any WA state license at resident rates
Receive in-...
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The legal line has to do with title requirements for vehicles. There is no specific law that requires you to do anything in connection with the VIN when replacing parts, and you can swap VIN plates on vehicles, or destroy the plate – but that limits your rights with respect to the car. You need a certificate of title to operate or transfer (but not simply to ...
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Yes, but there is a risk
If a company persistently violates the law, the regulator can go to court to get an injunction for them and their agents to stop. If they don’t they are now in contempt of court and the fines for that are much steeper. Also, the people in contempt can be jailed until the contempt stops.
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There are often additional legal measures that the authorities can take to make it more expensive and troublesome for a company that acts in the way described in the question, treating a fine as merely a cost of doing business, or as a "convenience fee".
For example, consider the Seattle Building code linked in the question. While section 103.5 ...
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RCW 46.61.419 gives government police the right to enforce speeding violations as defined in RCW 46.61.400 in certain communities (condominiums and gated communities), per RCM 64.34, 64.32, or 64.38, if:
(1) A majority of the homeowner's association's, association of
apartment owners', or condominium association's board of directors
votes to ...
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For regular firearms you only have to comply with the laws of the state to which you are moving. Since Utah (presently) has no state-specific restrictions on ownership or possession of AR-15 rifles that means in this case, as you say, "no problem."
(The only exception would be registered NFA items – e.g., machine-guns, suppressors, SBR, SBS, DD, AOW &...
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Note, Washington State Senate Bill 5061 seeks to block certain "untracable" firearms without a serial number. This relates in part to "3D printable" guns, but the act of milling of a 80% lower (in Washington) could be a violation, if and when it passes. But it appears the bill hasn't been made a law yet... Is Washington specific news this issue what drives ...
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In theory its only a crime if you know, or reasonably suspect, that it is stolen.
The fact that you have to ask means that you have some level of suspicion, so that's not good to start with.
In practice merely being investgated by the police will bring you a world of hurt long before it gets to trial. How much can you afford to spend on legal fees, and will ...
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This would not be a crime in any US state to the best of my knowledge. In some, but far from all, US states, there is a tort known as "Improper disclosure of private facts". That tort makes it actionable to publish true but embarrassing facts about a person, when they were not public. There are various limits on exactly when such a tort applies, ...
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Fraud may be a crime, or a tort (civil wrong): only criminal fraud can be a "felony". The Washington criminal laws about fraud are here, and they are all fairly specific, such as selling or destroying encumbered property (which is a misdemeanor anyhow), or conducting a mock auction. Most frauds are misdemeanors, though forgeries are in the felony ...
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We need to assume that the stop was legal (not a high hurdle to clear), that is, there was some reason to stop you. Even so, following Utah v. Strieff, police don't actually have to have a reasonable suspicion to stop you and if in the course of an ID check they discover that you have a warrant out for your arrest, the arrest is still legal. So if the police ...
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The landlord may be confused about what is legal. Growing pot without a license (they do not have one: it cannot be grown at home, and certainly not if there is a minor present) is not legal, not even in Seattle (medical marijuana now requires a general marijuana license, and home-grown is not legal – some Dept. of Health pages don't reflect the new law).
...
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Common Law Contracts
Contracts do not have to be signed. They do not even have to be written down. In fact, the overwhelming majority of contracts entered into are not written – when did you last sign a contract to buy a cup of coffee? See What is a contract and what is required for them to be valid?
A contract is an enforceable agreement. It exists ...
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As it happens, the law was just changed, effective 1/1/2017, and here are the changes. One part, section 105(1), states
A power of attorney must be signed and dated by the principal,
and the signature must be either acknowledged before a notary
public or other individual authorized by law to take acknowledgments, or
attested by two or ...
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The law on the web page is not current: as of the beginning of the year, RCW 23.86.030(1) reads (you'll find this under Sec. 9103) "The name of any association subject to this chapter must comply with part I, Article 3 of this act" and is otherwise unchanged. In Article 3, sec. 1301 governs names, giving the sec'y some discretion to deem a name to not be ...
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Can a US employer hire someone as a salaried worker, require them to work long hours, and then fire?
Washington State is an "At Will" employment state meaning that, with exception to some protected classes and bargaining, the employer may terminate the employee for any reason the employer can cite, or no reason at all. If the firm used it as a benefit of the job but it wasn't agreed upon on the contract, its not a deception as if you can hold the job to ...
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I should have read the article more closely before posting my question. This is apparently the answer:
Most hospitals have policies where they will release your body parts
to you because of some religions where you have to be buried whole.
So if, for some reason, you want to keep your amputated arm or gall bladder, you could presumably tell the ...
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I feel that a person, not the subject of arrest, should be protected
by the 4th amendment if they choose to remain in their vehicle, even
if “ordered” to exit the vehicle by an officer.
The intuition is fine, but is basically incorrect.
I’m most interested to know:
How would a driver (1) Politely (2) determine if a given instruction
to exit ...
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As is often the case, the answer is "it depends." In this case, it depends on:
1) When the condo was organized. Washington law says that all condo associations organized after July 1, 1990, "shall be organized as a profit or nonprofit corporation." Since incorporation is a legal requirement for these condos, the Board must file for incorporation, regardless ...
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My answer would be different if either Alice or Bob was the landlord, or the landlord had a separate agreement with Alice and Bob.
If a single lease is written, per the comment, that Alice and Bob are components of "the tenants", and "the tenants" have rented the named premises, then they all have equal rights to occupy the whole premises under the lease. ...
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The law regarding proof of service allows service of summons by publication in case a defendant "is not a resident of the state, but has property therein and the court has jurisdiction of the subject of the action". Plaintiff must
file an affidavit saying that he believes that you are not a resident, and he either mailed the summons to you or states that ...
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