texts: Can you prevent AT&T from raising prices by making such suggestion?

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As per the recent news (LA Times: Contact AT&T's CEO, hear back from his lawyer), making suggestions to AT&T as an existing lifelong customer results in escalation to their legal dept, which subsequently sends the suggestion back to the suggester, with the lawyer articulating that the company respectfully declines to consider said suggestion.

"AT&T has a policy of not entertaining unsolicited offers to adopt, analyze, develop, license or purchase third-party intellectual property ... from members of the general public," Restaino said.
"Therefore, we respectfully decline to consider your suggestion."

This prompted the rival T-Mobile US' CEO to run a twitter campaign to publicly collect such declined suggestions (even issuing an official press release — https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/att-customer-ideas-welcome.htm).

.@ATT & #Randall are nuts. If they don’t want your ideas, we’ll take them! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Uncarrier is about listening/improving for customers!

Following the logic explained by AT&T in the latimes article, that people could later sue if a suggestion is acknowledged and implemented, one of the customers sent a suggestion to AT&T to raise prices by 10 dollars per month, and proactively claimed to assert the intellectual property rights over such suggestion in the same letter (the tweet was fav'ed by Legere for the apparent humour).

Would a suggestion to raise prices by 10 dollars per month prevent AT&T from doing so, without subjecting itself to the possibility of a legal action from the suggester?  (If not, is that only because the suggestion is too trivial, or are there other reasons as well?)

If mere customer suggestions could really result in legal action if acknowledged and implemented, how come John Legere openly takes and implements suggestions from his customers, boasting about such practice in every one of his interviews, without any news of any suggestion-based lawsuits or settlements taking place?

Likewise, I've heard of many stories about startups taking suggestions from their first customers (whether corporate or individual ones) without giving back anything other than better service for same price.  (This advice itself came as a suggestion at one of the startup talks about how to successfully start a business — it was explicitly advertised that employees of your customers will volunteer their company time and expretise to make sure you're successful if you can solve problems they want solutions for, without asking for anything in return other than the ability to purchase such solution (on the open market).)  Are such startups opening the door for later lawsuits for equity from the people who gave the suggestions?


texts: What is a store detective allowed to do?

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A couple of days ago I came into contact with a store detective after a quite expensive shopping trip. The shoplifting gate-thingy went off (there's more to it but no need to drag it out) and when I was already outside, the store detective approached me, eventually even grabbed me and tried to rip my shopping bag off my shoulder. I had to call for help and the guy only let go when he saw other people approaching to help me.
He was later joined by a second "detective" and they both refused to let me leave (cornered me in front of a different store) - they didn't even want to let me use the toilet. Eventually the police showed up, checked my bag (the second "detective" looked at the receipt to check) and proved that I indeed hadn't stolen anything, as I'd said at least 10 times.
I can't find any information about Austria, so I hope that someone here'll be able to help me: What is a store detective legally allowed to do?

Do I have to answer any questions (e.g. if I bought anything at that store)?
Do I have to show them a receipt?
Are they allowed to check my backpack/shopping bag/... without my permission?
Are they allowed to grab someone without consent?
Are they allowed to take away a bag forcefully?
Are they allowed to follow me outside the shop?
When the police show up, does any of that change or are only they allowed to check my bag,...?

So basically: What can I do now? I'm not physically hurt but I'm completely over the place since then - not sleeping well, getting kind of shaky when I think about this (and incredibly angry)?


texts: is estate responsible for debt of car-loan co-signed by the decedant?

texts: My mother co-signed a car loan for her grandson ~3 years prior to her death . He defaulted on the loan and the car was repo'd AFTER her death. Can the loan company come after her WV estate for the debt? The car was sold prior to the estate receiving notification.


texts: Rental discrimination because of family status?

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I and two prospective roommates (we are not related) have been in search of a 3 bedroom house to rent in Florida. We've applied for a 3 bedroom townhouse, paid the application fee, and are waiting on the response of the owner to see if we will be able to rent the house. The landowner seems to be dragging their feet, and it wasn't until several days (4-5) after we had submitted our application that we got this text from the realtor who had shown us the property.

"The landlord is hesitating   your application due to you are not family. But still considering. sorry for waiting."

As it stands, we absolutely qualify in terms of income, passed the background check, and were likely the first to apply. When we applied, we were told that since we were not related, we each would have to fill out our own form and pay an application fee each. The form itself had a section titled "List others who will reside in this house on a permanent basis" with a field for each persons income.

I know the text from the realtor isn't necessarily the exact words of the property owner, but at the very least, wouldn't that mean we could reasonably request a refund of the application fee as the format of applying (each person filling out a form) already made us unlikely to get the house?

P.s. the townhouse is part of a larger building. Only that one unit is owned by the property owner, the whole remaining building is part of a vacation rental company which is not affiliated with our prospective landlord.

Thank you ahead of time for your consideration and suggestions.


texts: Is a developer liable for illicit use of an app?

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A software developer receives a Content Infringement complaint against his app, which facilitates video downloads from YouTube. The software developer believes he is not responsible for the act of someone who downloads videos without permission of the IP owner.

My Question is: How can the developer get rid of such IP complaints, by specifying any statements of disclaiming? This answer does not help me.


texts: How do I tell if a settlement offer is good enough?

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Is there a formula to tell if an out-of-court settlement offer should be accepted for a civil claim, instead of taking the claim to a trial?

(In economics there is something called an expected value formula when you multiply the probability of success times the reward. Then you can compare it to the offer and determine which one is higher.)


texts: GDPR rights when subject dies; does family inherit subject rights?

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Under the GDPR, anyone can make a subject access request or ask for their personal data to be erased (within limits etc.).

What if the subject is deceased?  Does the widow/widower or do the children inherit this right, accessing the personal data (or requesting its erasure) of the deceased?


texts: Do non-US companies have to pay US tax just because they have US customers?

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I just came across some US tax forms for foreign entities like W-8BEN-E and 1040NR which made me ask this question.

Suppose a company called Cool Stuff Ltd. runs some sort of online business serving customers all over the world. This could be paid content subscriptions, dating, posting ads/classifieds, hosting, VPN — all sorts of stuff that is performed by software accessible by customers over the Internet.

The company is not present in the US in any way: no incorporation, no offices, no employees, no web hosting, the shareholders and directors are not related to the US at all.

People in the US can access the company's website/app and buy services in the company's home country currency. The company may not even care or take note of where they are from.

Technically, if any single John Doe from the US decides to buy a subscription, he will make the company "receive" "income" "from U.S. sources that consists of" "Compensation for, or in expectation of, services performed" (W-8BEN-E):

Does that really trigger the company's obligation to fill US tax forms and pay tax in the US? If so, is there any threshold i.e. minimum income that triggers the obligation?


texts: Real estate - Transfer Disclosure Statement and Disclosure of Repairs

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This question pertains to real estate law in the state of California. I recently purchased a house and moved in this past weekend. Yesterday, the first rain event of the season occurred, and several water leaks became readily apparent. The leaks occurred in spots where there was no existing evidence of past leakage. One leak is around a window sill and one is from the roof. During the inspection, we found no indication of any areas that might have had any existing water leaks, and this is something that I paid particular attention to.

When the seller signed the Transfer Disclosure Statement, they did not indicate any leaks or water damage. Before escrow closed, I was made aware that the seller had completed a variety of repairs including: pavement, new windows and roof repairs. It was my understanding, and the impression conveyed to me by both my and the seller's agents that the repairs were all related to marketability of the house.

My first thought is that I did not ask enough questions as to why the repairs were made. This brings me to my question. Is the seller required to have disclosed any existing known issues if repairs were made to correct those issues? Also, if it turns out that the repairs made did not correct the original issue, does that change what the seller should have disclosed?


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Confirming Child Abuse

What is the minimum amount of evidence needed to legally verify child abuse (or neglect) is occurring, what parties "officially" confirm this, and is it only "officially" confirmed and on record if it goes to court?

I'm interested in knowing if there are federal laws that apply to everyone in the United States about this, or if these are [Florida] per state laws?
I'm interested in knowing when it's most likely for the courts to get involved in a reported instance to be investigated.
I'm also interested in knowing if it is always left up to a single case worker's discretion (ever more than one just in case) per incident to confirm and report child abuse it higher authority.
It'd be helpful to know (if applicable) at what level of abuse typically requires parents to prove themselves fit to care for a child, take parenting classes, attend anger management, etc. if there is such a grading scale for the level of confirmed abuse.


texts: If I have access to some else's Whatsapp, can I use it as evidence?

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I have a client who asked me the following question.

Her husband gave her access to his Whatsapp as a trust exercise. She then used it to open Whatsapp web on her computer and follow the conversations (he doesn't know that she has the whatsapp web access). She then found out that he is cheating on her and wants to send this to the other party's mate.

Can she use the web chats as evidence or will it be viewed as she puts it, unethical hacking?

I did refer her to a lawyer, but I am now interested to hear what the answer could be.


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The link below takes you to a photo of a sign bearing a registered trademark...

North Dakota - Legendary

Yet the photo is in the public domain. I would like to use the photo in a book about state symbols I'm working on. Since it's in the public domain, that shouldn't be a problem - or is it?


texts: Expired concealed weapons license in Florida

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Lets say someone is walking to the gas station and they're armed with a concealed firearm. They have thier concealed weapons licence. A police officer decide to do a terry stop. In the process of frisking the person, police find the firearm. The individual is carrying their weapons license with them and presents it. It is at this point in time that the individual realizes their CWL is expired by a few days.

What can the police do regarding charges?

Can the Police arrest this individual?


texts: Can a council absolve themselves of responsibility for actions on their property?

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Having moved into a brand new property a year ago, we have been plagued by a noise nuisance from the city council owned car park across the road from us (I hate to be the person that moves to a place and then complains about it, but this isn't normal activity like an airport, pub, club etc).

From 8pm until the early hours of the morning most days of the week (worse at weekends) youths with cars and motorbikes have been congregating underneath the flyover in the car park, revving their engines, shouting, playing loud music, racing each other around the car park and (more recently) having horn blowing contests.  This can literally be until they choose to disperse at some point after midnight, so you can imagine how hard it is to sleep with this going on.

The exit to the car park is pretty much outside our property, and they use the road our property is on as a race way - they exit the car park, do a high speed circuit of the block and return to the car park.

6 months ago I raised this issue with the city council through their noise nuisance complaints website, but I received a reply that the council only deals with noise nuisance issues caused by council or private tenants or property owners - any noise nuisance issues on council land is not their responsibility, and instead directed me to the local wardens or the police.

The local wardens only patrol up to 8pm, so they have already said they cannot do anything.

I have thus far lodged more than 40 complaints with the police non-emergency number, and not once has anyone been sent out, even when the report has been after midnight.

I have ample video and audio evidence of the nuisance (one of the first things suggested online is to keep a diary of the nuisance, so I set up a Raspberry Pi to record raw audio and the decibel level a few months back), and my neighbours have similar issues and are backing us.

Legal action is the next recourse, and the only people I can take action against are the council as its their property - but they are saying its not their problem...

So my question is thus - can the city council actually absolve themselves of legal responsibility for actions on their property?  Private property owners cannot do this, they are responsible for the noise on their property, so why can the council?


texts: Could it be considered fair-use to post a censored version of another YouTube video on YouTube?

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Regardless of if it is legal to download the video from YouTube in the first place, could it be considered fair-use to upload the video with some parts of the video and audio censored (giving credit to the original author)?

The specifics: I edited Taylor Swift's Shake it Off (titled "Taylor Swift - Shake it Off (censored)") to remove all the twerking as well as the entire bridge in order to make it kid-friendly (as I have kids who love the song and Taylor Swift). I put it on YouTube as a private video and got a ContentID match and after a couple of days didn't receive a Copyright Infringement Notice ... so I went ahead and made it public ... and of course it gets taken down a few days later.

I don't think I'll "fight" it; I'm just curious if there is any case-law out there similar to this situation.


texts: Never received renewed lease from landlord, can I still live in my apartment?

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I live in Nevada and my lease agreement for my apartment ends today (Aug 31). In July, I verbally agreed to renew my lease for 6 months with the management company (landlord). I was told they would send me a new lease to sign.

After a week of not receiving an email, I followed up to let them know I had not received the new lease yet.

Another week went by and, again, no lease. Followed up AGAIN.

Here we are, last day of the month and no lease.

Now, I could follow up again but I'm kind of over it. THIS IS THEIR JOB and I feel I have done my due diligence.

In all honesty, I wanted to go month-to-month but they said 6 months was the minimum and as I don't feel like moving so I agreed.

Now, it is my understanding that if a lease does not exist, Nevada State Law says the landlord or tenant must give a 30 day notice of eviction or leaving.

If I just never receive a lease from them and continue to pay my rent, do I still have the legal right to live in my apartment and if I choose to leave at any point, all that is required is a 30 day written notice? (So I get to live there month-to-month)


texts: Minor in violation of curfew on his property

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My son, who is trying to do the right thing, asked if he could be in violation of a curfew if he was in my (his) front yard after the curfew began.

Where does and does not count as an allowed area for the purpose of obeying curfew?

We live in Montgomery County Texas.


texts: Is it ever a good idea to volunteer for a "photo line up"?

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Many years ago I was walking down the street when several patrol cars quickly pulled up, police jumped out and sternly stated, "Stop. Can I see some ID?" (with hands on guns/tasers ready for a chase).

Naturally I stopped and showed ID. No problem.

Once the officers saw I was cooperative and not trying to be difficult, they lowered their defenses and became much more cordial.

I learned that I "matched the description" of someone who apparently had just moments before committed an armed robbery a few blocks away. Okay, so I get why I was stopped. Again, no problem. They took my information and let me go on my way.

A few days later, two officers knocked on my door and asked if I would "come down to the station to be part of a photo line-up." Note that I have no criminal record and there is most likely nothing "on file" that would have been sufficient for the police to use.

Due to my circumstances - just got off work, had a job that left me smelling of gas, tar, and asphalt and very, very greasy and grimy and I hadn't had a chance to clean up yet - I politely turned down their request. This wasn't a problem. The officers went on their way.

Much later I read somewhere that one should never pose for a photo line up because if the "witness" makes a mistake you could be in a whole lot of trouble quickly with little or no cause for it.

Is it ever a good idea to pose for a photo line up if you haven't been charged with anything?


texts: What jurisdiction is responsible for firearms regulation in United States education institutions?

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Which legislation level and body governs the ability of students and teachers to carry firearms on a campus? Where does this body derive said authority?

Is it at the city, state, or federal level or a combination of these?


texts: Can a pro se plaintiff call the defendant as a witness and compel testimony in a civil suit?

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I have a court case coming up in Maryland District Court. It is a landlord-tenant dispute; we are pro se plaintiffs and the defendants (husband and wife, both landlords to the house I lived at) will be represented by an attorney. There is another plaintiff in addition to myself, my former roommate.

The co-plaintiff and I would like to use direct and cross examination, however we are a bit confused on how to proceed.

Can we call the defendants as witnesses so we may cross examine them during the case in chief? Would we call the defendant as a witness before the case begins? Is doing this known as "compelling testimony" and is this even allowed if the defendants have a lawyer?

Can I direct examine my co-plaintiff?

I have read online it could be advantageous to perform the cross examination before the direct examination. Is this allowed? If so, does this mean I can ask the defendant questions before I ask the co-plaintiff questions?

I understand there are multiple sets of rules in regards to civil procedure, such as federal, state and even local.


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Question. Under what circumstances does referencing a copyrighted fictional work in an unrelated commercial educational product constitute fair use?

For example, suppose the copyrighted work is Star Wars, and suppose the unrelated area being taught is lesbian dance theory.

In increasing level of egregiousness, an educational product might:

Use a word specific to the work. E.g. referring to the best practitioners in the world as the "Jedi" of lesbian dance theory.
Refer to characters from the work. E.g. "These people are like the Master Yoda's of lesbian dance theory."
Refer to plot points from the work. E.g. "Remember when Luke wants to run off to fight Vader, but Yoda cautions him that he is not ready? He ends up a losing a hand because of that. The reality is, a lot of people want to run off and create a great lesbian dance after a 1 month intensive, but most of them aren't ready."
Quote the work. E.g. "Remember how Yoda said: Do, or do not. There is not try. Well, the same advice applies to learning lesbian dance theory."

Would these fall under fair use? Are there any notable cases where someone did one of these and had their fair-use defense rejected?


texts: What happens to the developer studio of a game that makes an exploit possible on a console?

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Often with consoles to be able to softmod them, some legitimately acquired game is required that provides an exploit such that the whole console can be modded, possibly resulting in the owner installing hundreds of illegally obtained copies of games.

Can the creator of a console (e.g., Nintendo) sue the creator of a game (e.g., Konami) that inadvertently provides an exploit that is used by hackers to mod the whole console?


texts: Using photos from another website to sell merchandise

texts: Under what conditions is using some other brand's logos and pictures on a commercial website allowed? Could I use, for example, a picture of a Dell computer (taken from their website) of a given model to let users know I have it for sale?


texts: How does false advertisment regulation apply to games claiming your IQ is determined by your success in the game?

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I've seen a number of mobile game advertisements which will hover an IQ score above the game with it going up or down based off of rather the player makes a correct move in the game.  While they don't explicitly say it they imply your IQ can be judged by how well you play the game.
These games are nothing like valid IQ tests and could not be used to accurately estimate ones IQ, especially since playing a a trivially easy game correctly can apparently result in IQ scores way higher then statistically realistic.  I'm wondering how these advertisements hold up to false advertisement laws.
Is the argument that no reasonable individual could possibly believe that their IQ is directly tied to success at the game, and as such it is not false advertisement since everyone should know the implication is baseless?  If that is the case I don't see what the point of having a false IQ indicator that they supposedly believe no one will take seriously.
Are these games at risk of being found to be falsely advertising, and simply get away with it because their too small, and the false advertisement too minor, to be worth the government taking action?
I'm asking specifically from a united states perspective


texts: Ambiguous numbers in contract: which will be deemed to be valid (if so)?

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An employment contract states that notice of resignation (edit: or termination) should be given

  30 (sixty) days

prior to end of employment. Clearly, the number represented by the digits contradicts the number given in words. Which of the two should prevail (and why)? Or will the containing clause be deemed invalid?

The text is in a word processor format file (editable). Jurisdiction: South Africa. In the past, in my experience, employment contract in this field (and many others) specified a notice period of 30 days / 1 calendar month, so I see that as a sort of "norm". Although I have seen a 6-week notice period in the recent past, so maybe there is a trend towards longer notice periods.

(As an aside: I can see the value of this practice (giving a number both in digits and spelling it out) when a document is hand-written (or faxed) and may be unclear, but in the age of the electronic documents and e-mail???)


texts: Would a business that has no office in EU still have to worry about GDPR, and if so, why?

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This question is inspired by this other question asks about how a (fictional) Small Town News USA Inc could prepare for GDPR.

Although opportunistic lawsuits against US-based businesses on their handling of EU-residents data might be possible, I find it doubtful that EU would audit businesses outside their jurisdiction for GDPR compliance.

This is why I wanted to ask:

Is it actually necessary for businesses (such as a Small Town News
USA Inc) that do not reside in EU to care about GDPR?
If it is then how (and by whom) would compliance be audited and/or
enforced?


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If I enter an establishment that offers drinks/coffee/food and say "I'd like a coffee/beer/whatever" and the waiter gives it to me, shouldn't they explicitly mention that it's not for free?

If some person is handling pens with ads on a corner, and I say "I'd like a pen" could the person just reply that it's $1?

Would the scenarios above be any different if a mentally challenged person went through them?


texts: Are the U.S. military police allowed to operate on U.S. soil?

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Recently I saw an action movie about military police officer in the U.S. One question surfaced for me - as far as I understand main task of military police (including its investigators) is to combat crime inside U.S. army (and crime related to the army). On the other hand, as far as I remember almost in every country, including U.S., army cannot be used on the domestic territory for pretty much any operations. As I understand, military police is part of the military and technically any investigation or operation which military police will perform would be a violation of this ban on usage of army in homeland.

How this paradox is resolved from legal perspective? Am I misunderstanding something?


texts: New Zealand Parent Resident Visa 1000 per year Quota selection criteria?

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I have been exploring New Zealand residence visa options for me and my parents. I have tried but am unable to ascertain the following:
The New Zealand Parent Residence visa (which allows indefinite stay for parents of NZ Citizens/residents, but with travel conditions) is subject to a quota of 1000 each year.
Now is this a random lottery? I can't find how they decide which applicant to choose. Does anyone know anything about this, that is their selection criteria for the 1000 per year quota?
EDIT: Also, I wanted to know whether Parents can be sponsored by just Permanent residents of New Zealand or are Skilled work resident visa holders also eligible?
Asking because they write on the website that the sponsoring adult child "must be a New Zealand citizen or resident". Is this simply any resident or necessarily a permanent resident?
Thank you


texts: Product name: legal laws about patent rights

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I would like to start an English newspaper in Denmark. I'm not very creative with names. I would like to use a derivative name of big English newspapers. But I don't know if it's legal. So I saw that there is an Indian Times; like The Times. I'm wondering if that is a patent break?

I would like to call my newsblog Danish Independent or Danish Times. Please consider this a general question!

Site question: Whom shall I talk to, to proof if my product name is not under a patent? Whom to consult?


texts: Is it allowed to aggregate social media data?

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We are a group of data scientists, trying to build a social media search engine that basically focuses on trends and follows the method of store->index->rank method of storing social data from Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Tumblr (for now; we plan to add more in the future).

We have researched Terms of Use of major social networks, and we haven't found anything substantial that it is unlawful to aggregate social media data.

So, does someone know or experienced such a use case before that we should be wary of?


texts: Does a criminal complaint filled under an alias toll the statue of limitations of an offense?

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Generally, aside from murder, many criminal statues prohibit the filling of criminal charges after a certain amount of time has passed.

For the purposes of this question, assume the police do not know the true identity of the criminal who committed the crime, but have probable cause that a person who goes by a certain alias committed the crime.
Can a District Attorney file a criminal complaint (or initiate grand jury proceedings) against this alias?
Will the filing of this complaint toll the statue of limitations?
Under what conditions will the tolling stop? (if this complaint does indeed toll)

Is there any legislation on this topic?

I am interested in an answer for any jurisdiction in the United States, I imagine the answer could be different for the different jurisdictions within the states.


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If a friend uses my home address for his tax return, and he owes the IRS tons of money, will I be liable in any way?
Also normally would it be a problem if he filed a tax return with my address, and I filed a tax return with the same address in the same tax year?


texts: Is it illegal to deface graffiti in England?

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From this site - http://www.environmentlaw.org.uk/rte.asp?id=49:

In England and Wales, graffiti is considered an act of criminal damage
under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 and offenders can be punished with
an unlimited fine.

Is it illegal to deface graffiti? For example, spray painting over existing graffiti on a public wall.
By defacing I mean black-boxing, drawing a line through, painting over with the colour of the wall. So not tagging, but just spoiling or covering.


texts: Is it legal to record a business call in Canada?

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I am using a ZenPhone2 which I set to record all calls.
I had a call with a sales person about a service I was interested in (i was the one that answered the call).
This service offered was not what the sales person said would be offered.
Can I use this call and send the person an audio snippet of the call to help my argument with this particular company?

The sales person did not know he was being recorded, nor was there any indication of any party doing any call recording.

Can this be done without any legal repercussions?


texts: Can I use logos of brands, companies and/or services in a website for linking to my content on those services?

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Specifically, can I use the youtube logo on my website as a button to link to a video on youtube that I made?
What if I trace the logo, and/or change it a little to fit with the general theme of the website, e.g. crop it to a square shape? Or if I trace the logo badly, and it ends up similar, but not 100% the same (e.g., the gradient is slightly off)?
Should I declare anything specific on my website?
What if I use e.g. the Apple Logo to link to Apple Music (which has a different Logo)?
And the last, maybe most important question: What if I do it anyway? Can I expect a takedown request, a full-on lawsuit, or nothing at all?
P.S.: I'm based in austria, but please still answer the question if you're only knowledgable in other countries' law systems, since I think this may also be helpful for other people.


texts: Is doing business where you live all it takes to pierce the corporate veil?

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If an LLC operates from someone's home, I read (can't find source at the moment) that they want a place in their home where they exclusively work on the business (like a home office) to keep business and their personal lives separate.

If they don't do this and do business work from the kitchen, say, they are at risk of piercing the corporate veil.

Is this really all it takes to pierce the corporate veil? Assuming that all the other corporate formalities are in place, can I safely work from the living room, for example?

On a related note, if I get sued, will I have to prove that the place where I work is separate from where I hang out?


texts: Are books in pdfdrive.com legal or illegal?

texts: Is it legal to download books in PDF-format from https://www.pdfdrive.com/ ? How one can verify if the book given in the site is a legal copy or not?


texts: If a landlord donates commercial space to a non-profit entity, can the forgone lease value be deducted from landlord's taxes?

texts: I could not find a tax or IRS stack exchange so I post here.  Where I live, there is much commercial real estate that is empty.  I would like to propose to the landlords to donate the space to a non-profit temporarily until the market demand picks up.  Can I propose such a tax advantage to the landlord?  Does such a provision exist in the tax code?


texts: What are the legal risks in removing other people's baggage from a conveyor in baggage reclaim?

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I originally asked this on Travel.SE, but didn't get any useful answers. So I thought I'd ask about the legal aspects here. For further details on why I was doing it, see the Travel.SE question.

When I was at an airport baggage conveyor, bags would come up through a feeder conveyor, but an automated system was holding them, waiting for gaps on the main conveyor before it would drop them off. My bag had not yet arrived.

Very few bags were being released, as there weren't big enough gaps on the main conveyor. So I proceeded to group the bags on the conveyor closer together, in order to make bigger gaps to allow more bags to be released.

After 5-10 minutes of this a member of Heathrow staff arrived and started actually taking bags off the conveyor belt, standing them up nearby, and freeing up far more space than I was doing. And eventually my bag arrived.

Are there any legal reasons I shouldn't have been moving other people's bags on the conveyor, or removing them from the conveyor and standing them up?

The obvious main worry is an accusation of theft. I think UK theft laws have wording along the lines of "intent to permanently deprive" people of their belongings, which I'm clearly not doing. But am I doing something illegal by touching someone else's property without their permission, some sort of trespass?

Another worry would be about damage. If I damaged someone else's bag, presumably I'd be liable for the cost of whatever damage I caused?

Answers from a UK perspective are probably most applicable, though as this could happen to many people in many different countries, I'd personally welcome international answers (as long as this doesn't make the question too broad).


texts: What to include in disclaimer and privacy policy of IoT devices and services?

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IoT allows any devices to connect to a server which collect sensitive privacy data such as whether or not you are at home etc.

What are the main consent of users that need to be addressed when it comes to IoT devices?


texts: How far does someone need to be moved for kidnapping?

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A gang invited me to a house, when I arrived they dragged  me around the property and beat me up. There are no witnesses on my side but I think it is pretty obvious what happened  and I hope the police just make the gang confess by giving rewards for information.

How far does someone have to be moved for it to be  considered a kidnapping? Do you need to be driven in a car a long distance or is dragging someone into a house enough? Does it depend?

There was also  robbery  and aggravated assault involved so if kidnapping  can be proven  they all get life without parole.


texts: Inherited property with two unknown lien holders. What should I do?

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My mom passed away 8 years ago and left her house to my brother and I. But since then, we haven’t been able to do anything with it because it has 2 liens on it. So it sits there unoccupied after all these years.

Back around 2007 during the housing bubble, my mom used her house as collateral and purchased 2 other houses. When she passed a way, the debt from those houses created 2 liens. Shortly after they foreclosed and sold, therefore (from what our lawyer tells us) the liens should’ve been removed. So we tried to contact the two companies that held these liens to get everything smoothed out. To no avail, they both went bankrupt. We hired a lawyer to help us find the companies that took over the liens, but even our lawyer couldn’t figure it out.

$30,000 later, in debt from lawyer’s “research”, no information on the liens, rejected by the judge, and no house, we decided to call it quits until we had the money to hire a lawyer again. I’m worried that so much time and money has gone by that we need to figure this out before it gets auctioned off. So my question is, what can I do to find who the lien holders are, and remove them?


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The title basic summarizes my question. Is a real life story subject to copyright by those who lived it? Or could someones create a book or movie about the history without contacting those who actually lived it?

To make the question more concrete, consider the recent soccer team rescue in a thai cave and some intentions to create a movie about it. Could potential movie producers create a movie about a football team trapped inside a cave for 18 days without contacting anyone (or their legal representatives)?


texts: If US military found an extraterrestrial and didn't tell the president, is it legal to inform him?

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Many years ago I watched a film where US military found an extraterrestrial biological entity (an "alien") and used it for experiments. The president denied that aliens exist, and later, during invasion it became clear that this information was hidden from him.

If a person was present during alien discovery, and military officially affirmed that the information should be kept secret, can he or she inform the president about it?

Is the answer the same if the person wants to inform the Congress / Supreme Court members?


texts: Say I invent something and choose not to patent it but start producing and selling it, then if somebody else goes and patents my exact design what happens to my rights to sell/produce that product?


texts: Can I use GPLv3 license in my project even if I am below 18 years old

texts: My question is can I license my Game project with GPLv3 and have my name right of the copyright notice even if I am below 18?


texts: Is it illegal to smoke marijuana, or be caught with it, or both?

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I am currently watching a TV show called Border Security, and in this show, immigration officers interview potential candidates for entry into their country, in suspicion that they may have something to do with narcotics.

Usually what I see is that the immigrations officers say something along the lines of this:

I don't care if you have smoken pot on your own free time or in the past, you simply cannot be transporting any across the border

As I am not a citizen of the USA, I have a couple of questions.

1) Is smoking pot illegal?

2) Is it only illegal if you are caught with it in your possession?

3) If someone has admitted to smoking pot in the past, but do not have it on them, can they still go to jail?

4) Many of the immigrants on Border Security have admitted to smoking pot within the last week, but they are still allowed across the border?


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The fifteenth amendment was not ratified when the 1870 census forms were designed.  The last two questions in 1870 were

Was this intended to support Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment (which punished, by reduced representation in the House of Representatives, any state that disenfranchised any male citizens over 21 years of age)?


texts: Statement may be misunderstood as admission: is this a problem?

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Hypothetically, imagine this: suppose that a drunken man has an online Facebook conversation with a friend, they start talking about his ex-girlfriend. Then, they talk about his private and sexual life with his ex-girlfriend and he talks about very intimate and sexual details of his sexual life with his ex-girlfriend. He sends a picture of his ex-girlfriend, and continues talking about how he had sexual relations with her. Later, he looks back at the conversation and realizes that the picture of his ex-girlfriend which he sent was taken while she was standing next to her sister who is obviously a minor (or that her sister is standing in the background of the picture, maybe her face is unidentifiable?) Or perhaps, suppose if his ex-girlfriend was in the center of the picture, but her sister was on the side or in the background of the picture?

Has he by mistake admitted to doing something illegal (although he hasn't done anything unlawful in reality)?

Has he done anything illegal, or would the context of the conversation be important to a court of law and law enforcement?


texts: Legal Action Against a Property Appraiser

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The property appraiser of my new condo failed to study the survey map to catch a massive non-disclosure about the property; I filed a complaint against the Board of Property Appraisers and he received a warning from them. I have all of the information and a witness. Essentially, I paid 200k for a condo that has little value and most of the money is my personal money.

I am being led around by the nose and would like to know how to proceed with a suit because the condo is a white elephant and I am desperate to get out of it. I sent the appraiser a registered letter but no response.

Thanks,


texts: Is it illegal to make a Twitter bot that replies to every person mentioning a particular brand? (non-threatening)

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I have an incident with a particular company where my meal had an object in it.

The company is refusing responsibility so I was wondering if it's illegal to use a twitter bot that replies everyone mentioning the particular brand with a picture of my meal containing the object in it?

Something along the lines of "Did you know that your meal from BLAH brands can also contain this [object]" and a picture of the object.


texts: Does a company or an employee have to pay income tax?

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Here is a hypothetical situation:

A person worked in company A for first 9 months in a year. They paid income tax for him.
The remaining 3 months he worked in company B. This company assumed that the person didn't have any income before he joined them, and didn't pay any income tax for him (because his income in company B didn't reach the threshold of taxable income).

Now company B claims that the person has to pay this tax himself because it's his responsibility. As I know in many countries companies are obliged to withhold and pay income tax on employees' behalf. So it's company's responsibility to pay the tax. Who has to pay the tax in this situation? In case no one pays the tax will Revenue Department inquire this tax from the person or from the company? Assume the USA Law.


texts: Whistle-blower protection - evidence obtained illegally?

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If a company is surreptitiously operating a discriminatory hiring policy, and evidence from the HR system is leaked to prove it (i.e. records of the ethnic origin and gender of those promoted and hired). Would a whistle-blower have any legal protection against retaliation if they had no legitimate access to the HR system - or in other words they got in using a password they weren't supposed to know?
On a related issue how big does the difference between ethnic makeup of the hiring pool and the ethic makeup of those promoted need to be to prove discrimination? Example, lets say 20% of the company workforce has a particular ethnicity, and lets imagine that only one of the 50 people promoted in a year (only 2%) is from that ethnic group, would that constitute discrimination?  or more importantly, would that constitute evidence of discrimination?
UPDATE - what do I mean by retaliation? - Lets say the whistle-blower works in IT, and lets say the HR system database uses the same default passwords widely known to most of the IT staff. A company that objects to having the whistle blown on it may decide that using this password to access the HR system counts as 'hacking' and use this to fire/prosecute the whistle-blower.
I guess what I'm asking is 'can a whistle-blower do something illegal to expose something illegal?'. Discrimination is illegal, but so is hacking the HR system to get the evidence.


texts: Creative Commons NonCommercial content - limits on income possibilities?

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We're building a website that allows users to find fun things to do and, among other things, to read articles about some of these things, but also to write their own.

In order to have some of these articles available when we launch, we managed to find and import a large database of similar-themed articles, many of which are well-suited for our website and are licensed under a Creative Commons license (to be specific, under BY-NC-SA).

These articles wouldn't be the primary feature of our website, just an added value for our users. Our website could therefore work even if we abandon the whole articles idea.

While our website initially won't be generating any revenue, we're hoping to at some point adopt a business model and make it sustainable, at the very least. What limits would the NonCommercial part impose on us in this case?

Which of the following would this CC content affect?

Generating revenue through Google AdSense
Generating revenue through some other paid ads
Generating revenue through paid ads, but keeping the article pages that are under the BY-NC-SA ad-free
Having a category of paid users who would be able to have some additional features (but with the articles part available to both free and paid users)


texts: Employer accommodations for religious holiday celebrated for cultural reasons

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In the United States, employers are legally required to accommodate employees' religious beliefs and practices, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. In particular, if it does not impose an undue hardship, and employer must make a reasonable attempt to adjust an employee's schedule around a religious holiday. I am wondering whether this applies if the employee is observing the religious holiday for cultural, rather than religious, reasons.

For example, suppose an employee was raised Hindu, and spends Hindu holidays with her family. However, this employee does not truly believe in the religious teachings of Hunduism, but rather observes the holidays because it is part of her culture and tradition is important to her.

  Are there examples of court rulings that address this issue?


texts: Can beneficiaries be pursued for damages inflicted in life?

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This is only for fictional literary research

If a person confesses to a crime on their deathbed, one that caused unfathomable property damage and loss of life, will their heirs be forced to forfeit the estate left to them in that person's will?  What about portions of the estate given to them in life?  Will they be permitted to retain copyrights or patents created by the deceased?


texts: Is the statutory class under which patents are granted published anywhere?

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The four statutory classes of invention are process, machine, manufacture and composition of matter, with exceptions for abstract ideas, physical phenomena and laws of nature.

Whilst abstract ideas are not eligible for patenting, I understand methods and products that employ abstract ideas to perform real world function, may well be.

Where can I see the statutory class under which patents were granted?

Was this patent for the VIX volatility index and derivatives based thereon granted because the abstract notion of volatility was employed to perform the real world function of derivative trading?

Am I missing something in the document?

Kind regards,

Peter


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Say you have a software company, and you would like to make all the source code you provide FOSS, as you want to allow your customers to be able to modify and learn the code of the software you provide. However, to avoid competition using your code to their benefit, you would like to only allow private use. So my question boils down to two parts.

First, is there a FOSS license that

Permits private, but not commercial use
Is strong copyleft, such that all derivatives must be licensed under the same conditions
Otherwise allows modification and distribution, as long as there's no commercial gain involved

Second, if there is or can be, what are the implications of such a license?

Can the original company still use the original code? I would assume yes, as it's the copyright holder of all the original code
What about derived code by private individuals? I assume that under the terms stated above, the original company wouldn't be able to use it, unless such an exception is explicitly specified in the license
Would there be any other possible issues with such a license?

This question was originally posed on opensource. I have moved it here since I was told it doesn't fit their guidelines, and I wouldn't know of a better site in the network to post it on.


texts: Do I have any options if Chase has closed my account citing payment from fraudulent sources?

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A few weeks ago I received a $125 Chase QuickPay from someone on the site localbitcoins.com. Turns out the payment was marked fraudulent, and my account was frozen, whether it was because the user was charging-back or his credentials were stolen I do not know. I knew that on my end the payment was legitimate so I sat down with my branch manager on multiple occasions over two weeks and discussed the situation and we were working on it, submitting documents, etc.

After a long (and possibly non-existent) investigation Chase first told me when I called to check up on things this morning that my account was unfrozen but I needed to set up a new online profile. When I went to the bank a couple of hours later to do this and they called to set up a new online account they were informed that contrary to what I heard earlier my account was being closed and that was that. The reason they gave is that I was receiving QuickPays from fraudulent sources (even though this one was one of many previously received QuickPays).

So I have two of questions:

Is the bank required to give me the results of the investigation? (They refused when I asked on the phone at the branch.)
Do I have any options/recourse to stop them from closing the account?


texts: Arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission

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Oral arguments were recently held before the supreme court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The discussion was almost exclusively about the 1st amendment's free speech provision and what kinds of business products/services convey a message and therefore should constitute protected speech. The same was true in their petition for certiorari, the replies, and the few amicus briefs I read.

My question is about a few other arguments I expected to hear. The first deals with the religious free exercise clause of the 1st amendment:

  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
  prohibiting the free exercise thereof

It was agreed upon by both sides that the baker refused to bake the cake in question on religious grounds. Is there precedent to suggest that a free exercise claim would not have prevailed?

The second argument I expected has to do with the 13th amendment of the United States constitution:

  Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
  crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
  within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

It seems to me that the baker could have argued that being forced to provide a service that he did not want to provide constitutes involuntary servitude. I am aware that this amendment was introduced to end slavery, but I don't believe this changes what those words mean, does it? Is there precedent that suggests that this interpretation is rejected by the courts or that such an argument would not have been successful? The closest case I could find that might address this is Butler v. Perry, but this case doesn't seem to say anything about one citizen working for another, it was about citizens working for the government.


texts: Tow truck company claim they towed my tractor trailer but I have a video of them getting into truck and driving it, what are my options?

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Background story,
After making my last delivery on friday night I parked my truck with trailer on a plaza lot where my friend has a decent size restaurant,
I was parked right behind his unit.

On Sunday 1pm I went go to get some stuff from the truck and it was gone. After looking around I found small label with towing company information.

At 3pm on Sunday I was at their lot getting my vehicle, I got into the vehicle and saw that it wasnt the same as I left and the dash cam that is attached to windshield was ripped off and swinging on the power cable.

I asked the guy why they got into my vehicle and his response was that they need to disconnect the trailer from truck and tow the two pieces separately and then connect them back again at the lot.

They billed me 1500 for the towing and service which they only wanted cash and didn't accept any card.

I got the truck paid full amount in cash and have a receipt from them with all the info and charges.

The owner (friend) of the restaurant showed me a video of them getting to my vehicle and driving off the plaza lot making a left turn into the main road at 2am Sunday morning. There is no tow truck in the video or someone disconnecting the trailer.
You can clearly see a guy with something in his hand opening a door and 10 minutes later backing up and driving away and then a red pickup following him.

What are my options here?
Can tow company drive my vehicle to their lot themselves?
What laws are they breaking?
What should I do?


texts: Offering privileges to donators that pay directly to my service provider for my server upkeep

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I have a server in which  I would like to provide a free blogging service. The general gist is that I lack experience and would like to provide a free service to learn more about server management and other things related to it.

My service provider has a partnership program. As far as I understand, I can trade those donations for extending/upgrading my server plan. My service provider even stated in their Wiki that they will take care of all the organizational and financial issues.

It seems like a good idea to give some sort of reward for donating users. By doing so, more users might donate. But at that point it would seem like I'd be selling some extra functionality and etc. for users depending on the sum they donated.

I do not have an organisation nor a business registered nor do I belong to one. Can this become a legal issue? I don't actually receive the money nor can I cash it out. My service provider deals with the taxes and all I can do with those donations is to invest them in my project's hosting and nothing else.


texts: Can you legally stop an unsupervised child from acting up

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I think this is the right place to ask this.. If there is a young child (say 4-10-ish) who is unsupervised and causing a major disruption, what is the extent of the measures you can take to stop him/her, as far as the law is concerned? When I say causing a disruption, I mean things like trashing a store, or spitting on passerby, or being aggressive, or even less important rules, like cheating at an arcade game, such as skeeball? I'm wondering basically because I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuHLsPVeqLU
As a normal person, watching, are you alllowed to intervene? Do you just have to deal with it, or can you forcefully make the child stop? I want to know from a legal standpoint, rather than moral.


texts: Do you have to follow all the orders a police officer gives?

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Saw a video on YouTube where a woman is being filmed in Walmart.

From what I understood, she was being accused of shoplifting (I guess rolled the cart beyond the registers without paying?), and then supposedly left her baby in the cart while running outside (although I am not sure if she was trying to run away, or just stepped out through the door, and then she came back in).

Long story short, I see in the video, a Sheriff officer whole is way way taller then her, all geared up, giving her commands to "stop talking" - he repeated that several times, and then just arrested her.

Question is, can you be arrested for now "shutting up", or other weird (to my opinion) commands? I am asking because the USA is supposed to be a "free" country, and not a police country.

Under what circumstances do you have to follow 100% of an officer's commands? For example, a person gets pulled over while driving. Can the officer command you to open the window fully (lets say  you opened just a little crack to give away license and insurance)? How about to step out of the vehicle (can you refuse to do so until their sergeant shows up - just so you won't get shot and/or accused of some trumped-up stuff?)


texts: Are the courts open when the law library is closed?

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Throughout the US, many courts face the challenge of providing services while concurrently attempting to comply with health guidance from the national, state and regional authorities. In many cases this has resulted in denial of access by the public to trials, and restricted access to the court clerk and other court offices. Frequently court and county law libraries are also closed, or their access is severely restricted.
Within New York, some county libraries are closed and others remain open.  There is not a high correlation between infection rate and library closure. For example, Central and Western New York tend to have their libraries closed, where as many down state libraries remain open, yet the COVID-19 infection rates are higher in the downstate communities.
In New York, Judiciary Law specifies that every county is to have a law library available for open use by the public.  Pro se litigants, students, and many attorneys regularly use the public law libraries.  During COVID-19 in locations where the libraries are closed, those people have been unable to have full use of the libraries.  This happened without notice, and in many areas there are few alternatives for locating the books, papers and special collections that he law libraries have amassed over the years.
If some one is involved in litigation, and suddenly they have no law library access, it can substantially disadvantage them.  They may have only access to online resources, which generally will not have legislative history available, bill jackets, older publications on common law and equity issues.  The sudden lack of access to information could cause someone to fail to prevail in a matter they might otherwise prevailed in.
Like New York, every state appears to have similar provisions, where there is public access to law libraries.  So the access to libraries is universally provided.  Even prisoners in the penal system have an assurance of meaningful library access.  It might be debatable whether their access is free and unrestricted, but SCOTUS has assured their right of access to libraries and other reference materials.
Is public law library access a right?
Is library access part of full access to the courts?
Is the closure of public access law libraries resulting in denial of due process to those who rely on those resources to help them litigate matters?
If a party believes they are so disadvantaged, is there precedence for the courts to suspend their matters until such time when open access to public law libraries is reestablished?  Or should the court system provide meaningful accommodation to the pro se litigant, or even the small practice attorney?
And if the courts make meaningful accommodation, does that deny any party fair and timely justice?
Addendum #1
New York Judiciary Law, Article 21, addresses court libraries.
There are some exceptions, but 813 states in part: (emphasis added)

Each county of the state shall have a court law library which shall be
governed as provided by section eight hundred fourteen of this
article. Such libraries shall be open to the public, however, the
chief administrator of the courts may issue guidelines for the use and
operation of such libraries. ...

Addendum #2
An informal survey of about 20 cases, with pro se litigants, who have claimed that access to the libraries impairs their ability to access the courts, has shown that in every instance, dates for appeal perfection extensions and adjournments have been granted.  Furthermore, due to the highly specialized nature of law it has been determined that the outdated books that regular public libraries and even a Westlaw subscription to basic services may be inadequate. From a unpublished ruling.
I have not found any relevant findings at the federal level, as it seems that access to law libraries for federal litigation is assumed at the state level.  However, like many our law libraries remain closed even though many other public venues are open at this time.


texts: Is it legally allowed to run a red light by make a double right turn at intersection?

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I was at the red light in an intersection, the street to my right was a residential undivided street. This car made a curve to that street and turn right out. It wasn't even a U turn. The path the car took is in the diagram.

I think it is at best a very jerk movement with no driving manner. Right turn at red light is allowed, but his intention was clearly to get pass the red light.


texts: What legal rights does ownership of music grant me?

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I am looking into music distribution service called TuneCore and can see the following in the terms of music distribution:

(b) By clicking the “I Agree” button, you irrevocably grant to Company, throughout the world (the “Territory”) and during the Term (as defined in Section 7 below), the non-exclusive right:
to sell, copy, reproduce, communicate to the public, distribute and otherwise exploit the Recordings by all means and media (whether now known or existing in the future) (“Sale”) through any and all Consumer Stores now operational or hereafter available;
to collect all income deriving therefrom; and

my questions is, if I give them irrevocable right to:

sell,
copy,
reproduce,
communicate to the public,
distribute
otherwise exploit the Recordings

what rights are left for me as an owner? other than enjoying the same rights?


texts: Consequences of Article VI, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution and the 11th Article of Confederation

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Article VI, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States, known as the Engagements Clause, says:

  All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

The eleventh Article of Confederation says Canada will be admitted into the United States as a new state whenever it so chooses, without any need for an act of Congress to admit them.

Would this mean that if Canada were to decide tomorrow to become a new state in the U.S., it would be immediately admitted without an act of Congress?


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I'm actually developping a "zen reading mode" (I don't know if there's a distinct way to say it in english) like Pocket for web articles in my own website.

Right now, I only save basic data on my database (Article title, thumbnail, author and URL) and when a user selects an article to be read, my website is performing a request to retrieve the article and then processes it to display it in "zen reading mode". I don't actually have the "zen" version of the article in my database.

But for performance issue, I'm wondering if I could just save the full "zen" version in my own database instead of querying the original URL of the articles.

Of course, either way, there are links to the original article and the author (if there's not, it's the domain it was published in) is displayed.

So I was just wondering if there was any laws or guideline about "copying" articles on the web and this kind of stuff.

Thanks.


texts: What to answer to a GDPR-related user request about his data if it is fully encryped and only the user has the private key for decryption

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We wrote an App where private data can be sent from one phone to another phone one by temporarily storing the encrypted data file on our database server. The data file will sit there for less than a few hours, maybe just a few seconds, and will then be deleted. We do not log this. All data (but the usernames) is encrypted (asymmetric cryptography, RSA) and can only be decrypted by the receiving user's private key which never leaves his phone. Therefore, we cannot decrypt it. The users also need to publish their public keys in our database to make this technically work.
We think this is GDPR relevant, since we still can theoretically see on our server who (theoretically identifyableby IP number) is sending data to whom (theoretically identifyable by IP number). We are not sure if the public key is 'private data', since it is technically 'public' per definition.
My question is what to answer to a user request about his data (which is an important point for GDPR). Are we just providing a print out of the file in its encrypted state? And only in case there is one there at the time of the request? The print out is anyway only readable for this user since the private key never left his phone, and, therefore, we cannot decrypt it. If there are no files, do we just tell so?


texts: Is it legal to download Youtube captions, perform some analytical tasks on them and then display the results on your own website?

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There are many online services that analyze social media data and then display aggregate results. For instance the most frequent keywords in social media posts, etc. Is it legal to do something similar for Youtube captions? Is it legal to display parts of the captions on your own website?
I'm mainly interested in US jurisdiction, but advice for other countries is also appreciated.
From what I understand this use case would need to fall under "fair use" doctrine, but it seems quite vague. The Youtube support FAQ states that:

Borrowing small bits of material from an original work is more likely to be considered fair use than borrowing large portions. However, if it's the “heart” of the work, even a small amount may weigh against fair use in some situations.

So if I understand correctly displaying some captions metrics would be fair use if I don't include any quotes? What about a summary? It could be considered the “heart” of the work and therefore use would be illegal?


texts: Are there laws that govern what you can say or can't say in political attack ads?

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I was wondering if there is some sort of law that governs what you can say or can't say when it comes to attack ads against an opponent during election season. Shouldn't dissemination of political campaign be audited for truthfulness? Just like how the SEC sets guidelines for disclosure and what you can and can't do. Execution of audits is done by the accounting firms... but SEC sets out rules.

Why don't we have something like that for the political system? or do we?

If the public is susceptible to misinformation by bad actors in the financial system and therefore are protected by the SEC... why shouldn't the same be done in the political system?


texts: Did Ms. Mapp have a right to take the search warrant?

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In Mapp v. Ohio:

  She demanded to see the search warrant. A paper, claimed to be a warrant, was held up by one of the officers. She grabbed the "warrant" and placed it in her bosom. A struggle ensued in which the officers recovered the piece of paper and as a result of which they handcuffed appellant because she had been "belligerent" [p645] in resisting their official rescue of the "warrant" from her person.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/367/643

If you read on in the opinion, the police were obviously very brutal in their effort to get the "warrant" back, but were they right in doing so? Did Ms. Mapp have a right to hold the search warrant, or only to see it?


texts: Can I tell my ex-colleague about job offers at my new company after signing an anti-solicitation clause

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When I started employment with my ex-employer I signed a contract that had an anti-solicitation clause to the effect of: "I will not "entice away from the employer any person who is an employee of the employer" after my employment.

I had lunch with a friend who I used to work with. He is still employed by my ex-employer. During this lunch he told me that he will soon be looking for new jobs. Is it ok then for me to tell him about job openings at my new company and help him find out more details?


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I am a musician. I want to perform music. How do I do this without being sued into oblivion?

I am particularly interested in UK law.

As I understand it, a specific sound recording (of anything) is protected by copyright, but the specific pattern of musical notes that make up a song is also protected (and the rights might belong to somebody different). So even if I don't use any copyrighted sound recordings, if I were to play a song that's recognisable, I would still be sued.

When looking at a song, I believe there are three possibilities:

The song was written so many centuries ago that nobody holds the rights to it any more and the music is in the public domain, e.g. Bach is presumably out of copyright now.
You wrote the song yourself, so you own the rights to it.
Somebody else owns the rights to it.

Obviously, it's the third case that presents a problem. In theory, you find out who owns the rights, and ask them whether you can use the song. Maybe they say yes, maybe they say no. In reality, it's not like you can just call Sony BMG (or whoever) and chat to them about it. And even if you could, they'll want tens of millions of dollars to license the song, which I obviously don't have.

This appears to mean that it is actually impossible to ever play any song that people will recognise.

Am I correct in my interpretation of the law? Is there some way around this problem?


texts: Is a letter from a non-US licensed physician legally valid to use prescription tint windows in California?

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I read in the California Assembly Bill no. 1303 (September 2017) – amended medical exemptions:

  (10) Sun screening devices meeting the requirements of Section 26708.2 installed on the side windows on either side of the vehicle’s front seat, if the driver or a passenger in the front seat has in his or her possession a letter or other document signed by a licensed physician and surgeon certifying that the person must be shaded from the sun due to a medical condition, or has in his or her possession a letter or other document signed by a licensed optometrist certifying that the person must be shaded from the sun due to a visual condition. The devices authorized by this paragraph shall not be used during darkness.

and:

  (e) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), clear, colorless, and transparent material may be installed, affixed, or applied to the windshield, side, or rear windows of a motor vehicle if the following conditions are met:
  (1) The material has a minimum visible light transmittance of 88 percent.
  (2) The window glazing with the material applied meets all requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 205 (49 C.F.R. 571.205), including the specified minimum light transmittance of 70 percent and the abrasion resistance of AS–14 glazing, as specified in that federal standard.
  (3) The material is designed and manufactured to enhance the ability of the existing window glass to block the sun’s harmful ultraviolet A rays.
  (4) The driver has in his or her possession, or within the vehicle, a certificate signed by a licensed dermatologist certifying that the person should not be exposed to ultraviolet rays because of a medical condition that necessitates clear, colorless, and transparent film material to be installed on the windshield, side, or rear windows.
  (5) If the material described in this subdivision tears or bubbles, or is otherwise worn to prohibit clear vision, it shall be removed or replaced.

Is a letter from a non-US (United States) licensed physician legally valid to use prescription tint windows in California?


texts: EU Consumer Goods Guarantee, who is responsible the Retailer or Manufacturer?

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The title of the question basically sums up my question but for completeness I will provide some more details.

Roughly 15 months ago I entered into a contract with a large phone service provided who provided me as an accessory to the phone a fairly nice portable speaker. So far no complaints. Fast forward to a couple of days ago and the speaker has stopped working, won't charge, wont turn on, in its current form it is more or less a glorified paper weight. It might be worth adding despite it being a portable speaker it has never left the house or been dropped or sustained damage from its use and is always put back in its box for storage (which itself is pretty well padded).

As far as I am aware (and I could be wrong) under EU law there is a minimum 2 year guarantee for faulty goods. At first I contacted the manufacturer to try and claim on the guarantee and was told that as they where not the retailer who sold/supplied the device it wasn't their responsibility to cover the guarantee and to contact the retailer who did. I then contacted the retailer who proceeded to tell me that as they did not make or manufacture the device they would not help me under the guarantee and I would need to get in contact with the manufacturer to resolve my issue.

So the question is really, who is right and who should I be contacting?


texts: Under what circumstances is it OK to intentionally drive at people?

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If a civilian is driving a car towards a person who is a police officer, that is historically sufficient justification for the officer to apply the instant death penalty against the driver. Even if a driver is trying to drive around an officer to get away, the officer's perception (or even a claim to have that perception) that the driver tried to hit them with a vehicle is enough to justify an instant death penalty against the driver.  Based on these cases (there are plenty of them!), it would seem like it's never legal or OK to drive at another person, or in a direction that could be interpreted as attempting to hit another person.  Given the severe & instant punishment, it seems like this is not even close to the boundary (hence the bold "never").

When a civilian intentionally drives into a crowd (e.g. in Las Vegas, or Isla Vista, or SXSW) and people get hurt (even if nobody's killed), that's considered a severe violation of the law and serious charges follow.  Even driving towards a crowd, before reaching it, can be enough to warrant fatally shooting a civilian driver.  This generally supports the conclusion above.

However, when it's the police doing it, it's fine for them to intentionally drive straight into/through a crowd that has lawfully gathered in a city's Market Square to watch Independence Day municipal fireworks (while it's not OK for a civilian to drive into a crowd gathered to watch municipal fireworks elsewhere).  Driving directly into a crowd with loud sirens and lights is apparently a good crowd dispersion technique.  The press doesn't even cover it except as a closing footnote on another story, to emphasize how hard the police are working to keep citizens safe.

When the crowd is not just assembled but also protesting, it's apparently OK for even non-police drivers to drive directly into a crowd.  Here's one example from Ferguson,  where the driver cleared it with police and even got charges brought against the protesters for damaging her car.  Here's another example from Ferguson. Where it's someone driving into a crowd of anti-Trump protesters, police just shrug and help out the driver, before arresting protesters for being in the way. A driver in that situation might apologize, but doesn't face charges.

The clearest rules I can figure out from this is that it's legal to drive at people when it's the police doing it or when the crowd is assembled for something that might fall under a First Amendment category as opposed to people just being in a busy place.  However, I don't especially like that answer. In trying to find a stronger one, my own personal sense of ethics clearly has no bearing or relevance to this question.  If it did, all of the latter examples (even the police car) would be in the "illegal" category along with the first ones.  So, what does the law say?  What's the legal rule?  Where does that rule come from (i.e. law citations)?


texts: Can a parent kick an adult child out of a house that the parents do not own or rent?

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I live in Spain. My parents and I live in a house which my grandfather legally owns. I'm 22 years old, and in Spain someone is considered an adult when they turn 18 years old. Could my father kick me out in these circumstances?

Edit: My grandfather doesn't rent the house to my parents, he allows us to live there. But the bills (water, light, etc...) are sent to my parents. I don't know if this could be relevant.


texts: What to do if your car inspection sticker expires?

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What should you do if your inspection sticker expires while you're outside the United States? How will you take your car to the inspection center once you get back home if you're not allowed to drive? I'm specifically asking about the law in New York.

Thanks in advance


texts: Can a spouse insist on payout of half of the equity in a home?

texts: In a community property state ( TX ), can a spouse get one half of the equity from the home ( community property) , in the absence of a death or a divorce ?


texts: UK Tenancy Renewal, Lockdown and the Law

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Our fixed term tenancy will finish on 31st July; with a two month notice period. I believe it’s likely that we will still be in lockdown by the end of July. I think it’s very likely that we’ll still be in lockdown by the end of May (when we have to make a decision).

May I ask:

Regardless of COVID-19, if no new fixed term contract is agreed, then does the tenancy automatically become a rolling contract?
It’s easier to evict from a rolling contract; I believe that the landlord can also decide to end the contract at the end of May. However, aren’t evictions currently banned, during the pandemic? Would this not cancel out this problem?
Lockdown and social distancing is law, if I’m not mistaken. Wouldn’t that make flat viewings — both for us, if we had to move, and any potential new tenants of our current place; not to mention the process of moving home, itself — illegal? I assume one can’t be compelled to break the law.

The reason I ask is because our landlord wants a new fixed term contract, potentially allowing for a break clause. We’d much rather a rolling contract and I want to find good arguments to support that.

Thanks :)


texts: Any reason not to out someone for having an Ashley Madison account?

texts: Suppose I torrent the file and see the name and address of my neighbor associated with an Ashley Madison account. Suppose he is a somewhat prominent business owner or local politician.     Can I be sued for posting this information somewhere online?


texts: Can a company repo your car if they are not on the title or contract and cannot show any proof they have ownership of the vehicle?

texts: I leased a car in oct of 2018. Shortly there after I received a text message from a company in texas saying they bought the contract. No word from the original company. They never said they were selling my contract. To this day I've heard nothing from them. Just this company down in texas claiming the car is theirs now. I've been asking for any type of proof they own the car or the contract for over a year. All I get is a welcome letter. They act like I'm buying a tshirt not a car. I told them I would put my payments in escrow until they could prove what they where saying was true. I talked to employee's and managers. I get nothing. Monday they came and yanked it out of my driveway damaging the whole front end, even though I was standing right there with the key. I'm just wondering if this is legal. Doesn't seem like it to me. Why would I send my hard earned money to a stranger? I've even looked them up on the bbb. Guess what? People that are paying off their cars STILL aren't getting their titles.


texts: In a rental, can a landlord remove a person from the lease and return their deposit?

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In a rental home, the landlord had everyone sign the same lease agreement.

Out of the original 5 tenants, one assigned their room and was returned their damage deposit from the landlord. Another sublet their room, I'm not sure if he got back his damage deposit from the landlord. When the original tenants assigned or sublet their rooms, they didn't receive permission from the other tenants. This was a problem as one of the new people didn't pay rent and it seems unfair as we never agreed to have him there in the first place.

Was it legal for the landlord to allow certain tenants to move out and return their damage deposit without having permission from the other tenants? If one of the new tenants doesn't pay or damages the house, is it legal for the landlord to then use joint and several liability to sue one of the original roommates? The contract doesn't specify any of this.

TL;DR if multiple people sign same rental agreement and landlord lets some find replacements, can landlord hold original tenants responsible for actions of new tenants even though they never agreed on living with the new tenant?


texts: Am I authorized to publish a solution manual for a book I haven't written?

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Bob wrote a solution manual  for book X. (solution manual = a manual that presents solutions for some/all exercises of the book)

Is Bob authorized to publish it, given that Bob hasn't written book X and doesn't own any right on it?

Book X was written and published in the United States, and Bob plans to publish the solution manual in the United States (either on Internet or on paper, and either free of charge or with a charge).


texts: Commissioning work: Who owns the rights in this scenario?

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My Colleague is currently in debate with someone they previously worked with last year in collaboration, under who owns the rights to the items in the following scenario.

The scenario is:
A group of four people, created a hair/fashion show - organising and planning all aspects, inclusive of hair/clothes/music/inspiration. Meaning the entire collection, was of their own idea, and creation.

Outfits were purchased by these four people, and needed some modification, (modifications being some illustrations applied). so under recommendation from a friend an individual (The Designer), offered this service without any discussion or need for payment.

The Designer was provided with all materials needed to do this, as to not incur any cost to themselves, also given a brief and reference images to use to ensure the end result was as excepted and fitted with the overall collection.

These outfits (and now modifications), became part of the final 'collection', which is owned by that of the 4 who orchestrated it.

My question is:

Where the work is of the designers hand, but was only created by them after being provided all materials, and a brief with reference images, not of their own ideas. Do they own any rights/copyright to the clothing items?


texts: Can I put a copyright notice on modified open source files?

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I have a software project which is essentially a heavily modified piece of open source software. I'm wanting to add copyright notices to the file headers to protect my work, as it is possible for users to extract the source code. Some files are totally original, some are modified, and some match the original open source project.
Can I put a "Copyright " notice on each file? If not, what about "Subject to copyright - contact  for more information" - would it be as effective of protection? If I put a "Copyright " notice on a file I didn't edit, what are the potential consequences?


texts: Contract: one party changes the terms after the other has become dependent on deal

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Suppose Party A and Party B sign a letter of intent wherein Part A is selling its assets to Party B. Over time, they are working together to nail down all the details of the agreement in a full contract. But the letter of intent already defines everything both parties see as important at the time that letter is signed.

Because everyone knows that the sale is in progress, Part A is severely hampered in many ways; its employees start leaving, other potential buyers disappear. Since Party B wants to be purchasing an intact business, it starts supplying some staff to work at Party A's offices while the details of the contract are worked out.

Before long, Party A becomes completely dependent on Party B's offer. It is no longer in a condition where it could find another buyer for remotely the original price if Party B backed out.

At this point, Party B adds an extreme demand which was not contemplated in the letter of intent, which is very deleterious to Party A's interests. It won't back down; it demands this new stipulation or it will back out of the sale.

It seems to me that this situation is extremely abusive, and that it should be possible to successfully sue Party B for severely damaging the prospects for a satisfactory sale of Party A's assets. Party B seems to be operating in an extremely manipulative manner which shows bad faith.

Is there any case law that supports this view (or supports the opposite view)? Is there a specific legal principle in play here which has a name?


texts: Publishing an interview/conversations in a book without explicit consent

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Let's say I've conducted an interview/conversation as the interviewer with someone. I didn't tell him I may publish that interview (in a book or elsewhere) as I wasn't thinking of publishing it at the time of the interview.
Do I need to seek further consent before publishing the interview or parts of it for commercial or not commercial ends? What if the interviewed person died and couldn't be reached before?


texts: It is appropriate to include Google Maps screenshot acknowledging it is from Google?

texts: As my web spider was crawling, I found this site. It uses a Google Maps screenshot without using the widget or acknowledging that it is from Google. Is this legal? Should I inform the site to remove it?


texts: How strict are Cannabis laws in North Cyprus, i.e. if you caught with 150 grams of Cannabis? What would the punishment be, and is it usually easy to get bail with that sort of crime?


texts: Legality of This Hypothetical Situation (Lost/Misplaced/Abandoned Property)

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I along with a few other people are curious as to the legality of scenarios logically similar to the hypothetical described below:
Assume someone places their wallet on the ground in a public place, then someone picks up the wallet thinking it was theirs's, puts money in it, then leaves it on the ground and proceeds to walk away leaving the wallet on the ground. Then, at a later time, the owner of the wallet who originally left it on the ground in a public place comes over and picks up their wallet, and notices that for some odd reason someone decided to put money inside of their wallet that was left in a public place. Can the owner of the wallet keep the money that was put in their wallet? Or would it be illegal to take the money being that the person (not the owner of the wallet) who put the money in the wallet wasn't planning on giving it away? Or would the law state that because the wallet was in a public place at the time of the person putting money in the wallet, the person that put money inside has no expectation of someone not taking the money?


texts: Is Steve Bannon's Navy Personnel file protected information and if so, does USA Today bear legal culpability for obtaining and publishing it?

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I was reading USA Today article about Bannon, and one statement piqued my interest:

  Bannon’s military personnel file, obtained by USA TODAY, shows he was regularly promoted during his seven years of service.

The quote directly linked to downloadable document of the file.

Are personnel files of former servicepeople considered private information that is not supposed to be made public? (i'm almost certain it's "yes" but don't know the precise legal rationale).
If so, does USA Today obtaining it make it in any way legally culpable? (on one hand, possession of stolen goods makes one legally culpable, on the other hand, Pentagon Papers showed that this concept probably doesn't always apply to information).
Either way, my main question is, does USA Today publishing it make it in any way legally culpable, either in criminal court, or in possble civil litigation?

Not sure if it matters greatly, but at cursory look, the file has not been scrubbed of any information, so whatever PII/personal info was in it, would still be in it


texts: Who can I turn to to have a newspaper article removed from the internet?

texts: I'm trying to get some information removed from the internet. It was  an article which was published by a news publication called The Poughkeepsie Journal, which is located in a town called Poughkeepsie New York. They published a name in an article back in 2011 talking about a list of people set to graduate from a high school that year. I never attended the graduation ceremony because I was the victim of bullying, abuse and harassment by several teachers I had as a result of my disability, and being that I wasn't sure I'd graduate I instead opted to pick up my diploma. Although this article was published some years ago, at times it comes back to haunt me, as at the time the article was published it was under a name I no longer use. I did not give consent for that name to be published, and since the publishing of that article I had experienced harassment and bullying. Consequently, I moved away shortly afterwards and changed my name. I had contacted the Poughkeepsie Journal and asked very politely to remove that name from that article and stated my case in a clear, kind and professional manner. The editor, however, was very rude and quite egotistical about the whole ordeal. It ended with him telling me to contact the school district responsible for sending that information to the Poughkeepsie Journal. Upon contacting the school district, they told me there was nothing they could do at this point and that it didn't matter if I'd given consent or not, as they send photos to the newspaper and those photos contain names of those who either graduated or were set to graduate, and that name is in the article with all the others. Is there anyone who could help me find a pro bono attorney to get that info removed from the internet? The article no longer appears on the original website of the poughkeepsie journal, instead it appears as an archived version on the website newspapers.com. That archived link is what is making the rounds on all the search engines and I'm trying to remove that link. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How is this not a logical contradiction: 'He lends his exertions to all, himself to none.'?

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Question: How can an advocate lend his exertions to all, while lending himself to none: this appears a logical contradiction? Lending exertions to all logically, implies 'lending something of oneself to all'.

Secondary Source: p. 96 Top, Is Killing People Right? (2016) by Allan C. Hutchinson.

  Indeed, the mantra of the defence bar is that they 'lend their exertions to all, and themselves to none.'

Primary Source:

  Brennan J considered the proper role of counsel in an adversarial context in Giannarelli v Wraith (1988) 165 CLR 543 at 578-79:

    Counsel (whether barrister or solicitor) may appear to represent the adversaries, but counsel’s duty is to assist the court in the doing of justice according to law. A client - and perhaps the public - may sometimes think that the primary duty of counsel in adversary proceedings is to secure a judgment in favour of the client. Not so. The true position was stated by Lord Eldon in Ex parte Lloyd (5 November 1822, reported as a note in Ex parte Elsee (1830) Mont. 69, at p. 70n., at p. 72):

      He lends his exertions to all, himself to none. [Bold mine] The result of the cause is to him a matter of indifference. It is for the court to decide. It is for him to argue. He is, however he may be represented by those who understand not his true situation, merely an officer assisting in the administration of justice, and acting under the impression, that truth is best discovered by powerful statements on both sides of the question.


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I recently came over this app called Inkl (https://www.inkl.com/), which when you download it, lets you read articles from various news. However it doesn't redirect you to the news website or something like that, it just showes you the text of the article.

Doesn't this break copy rights? I think I read somewhere that republishing articles, even when you state authors name, is not legal.


texts: Is it illegal to set up a pretend speed camera or speed camera sign?

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This story about someone using a hairdrier as a fake speed camera made me think.

It's illegal to damage a speed camera.
It's illegal to put up an unofficial sign warning about speed cameras, or flash your lights to warn others of cameras.
Is it illegal to set up a pretend speed camera?

Suppose she'd got a bona fide sign or a plausible looking box, and set it up on her own property. Is that allowed?


texts: Ethnic discrimination in education by the State

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I found a petition on the potential ethnic discrimination/division of children by the national Ministry of Education.
The case describes a possible ethnic discrimination by the Ministry of Education in Moldova, where all the Moldovan children are "forced" by the Ministry to study the History of "Romanians", regardless the ethnicity of children (moldovan, jews, russian, ukranian, romanian, gagauz, etc): all should learn the history of the "romanians".
Wondering if there are such analogical legal cases in the Europe or in the World where the State was attacked based on the discrimination in the school object name.


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I'm confused by the difference between CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA (4.0?)

Context:

I found some books shared with CC BY 4.0. I want to publish these books in my book-reading app (commercial product) but I need to make changes to it for my country's market and want to protect those changes.

CC BY 4.0 requires me to:

attribute original creators (I'm totally ok with that)
indicate if changes are made (I'm totally ok with that)

BUT it also requires me to link to the license.

I would think that "linking to the original license (CC BY)" is confusing if I don't want to license it under the same license terms (since it is not a SA (Share Alike) license. How would I go about doing this?
Would something like "This work was originally shared under CC BY 4.0, the work it it's adapted form is now shared under CC BY-NC-ND" suffice? Do you have an example for such a case?

AND it also requires me to not apply any legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

I don't really get this. The CC BY is not as SA (Share Alike) license so I could share it differently. This to me suggests I would be able to restrict it's useage. Not being able to apply restricting legal terms seems like a contradition.


texts: Is it bad to have communication with opposing party outside of court?

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I started a claim against someone. The level of court does not require lawyers. The defendant rejected all my claims through the court, but contacted me by email saying he wishes to meet in person to discuss them. My initial reaction is this is a bad idea, but I'm wondering if there's any legal reason why I shouldn't meet with him?

One of the reasons I found it necessary to take legal action in the first place, was he refused to talk to me and said he blocked my messages. I guess now he's unblocked me. In the past he's done tricks where he pretends to give me an option, but then a short time latter says since I never replied he assumes I want to do x. I don't want him to be able to use any of these arguments in court. If I don't meet or reply to his email, can he then say I'm refusing to negotiate? He is a very dishonest person.


texts: Can I reproduce a trademarked logo in my blog?

texts: I have a blog about marketing. I am writing a new post where I talk about different Apple logos. Can I make a screen shot from Apple website and include that image in my blog? I just want to illustrate my text and help the reader follow what I am explaining.


texts: Buyers "breach of contract" by not providing "proof of funds"....is it enforcable and nulls purchase contract?

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Seller had a standard Real Estate contract with a section entitled "Cash Funds and Financing Contingency" the checked paragraph stated:

No Contingency on Obtaining Cash Funds

. "Buyer represents there are no contingencies on Buyer obtaining the necessary cash.....sub chapter A, Verification of Cash Funds... Buyer to provide evidence that is satisfactory to Seller of the availability of Cash funds... within a certain time frame...
The Buyer HAS NOT provided evidence nor additional earnest monies per contract.... does this release seller from contact ... as a Breach of Contract?... as now the Buyer is NOT providing evidence but threatening a law suit....


texts: Can I use GDPR to read an Airbnb review about me before I post mine?

texts: I just had a bad experience with Airbnb. The circumstances would be too long to describe and not relevant to my question. The fact is that I just have had an email that the host (I am the guest) let me a review and that I can read it after I post mine. I am considering, but reluctant, to make a GDPR access request to access it (before I post mine). This review, whatever it is, seems to clearly be a personal information that Airbnb have on me. Would I have the right to do it? Has something similar already tried? I am EU consumer residing in the UE. If the comment appear to be bad. Could I, under the GDPR, ask for it to be removed?