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Can you be fired for refusing to lie?
If your employer asks you to lie about something, and telling the lie is legal, but you refuse on moral grounds, can they fire you? Does it matter if religious beliefs are involved? (For example, if a Christian saying "I believe the Bible says lying…
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From what age may children walk home alone from an activity/sport in Germany?
In the UK, there are strict safeguarding rules for children. If a child is not picked up after school or an activity by their parents or caregivers, the teachers need to wait until they are picked up and their responsibilities are clear to ensure…
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Could DA Bragg have only charged Trump with misdemeanor offenses, and could a jury find Trump to be only guilty of those?
My understanding is that one of the most legally controversial parts of DA Bragg's indictment of former President Trump is the decision to elevate the charges of falsifying business records — ordinarily a misdemeanor under New York state law — to…
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Can someone who has been disbarred act as a scribe for a disabled lawyer?
I'm watching Better Call Saul right now and I'm at the bit where
Jimmy is suspended and Kim gets in a car accident.
It got me thinking: if someone were disbarred, would it be legal under US law for them to do act as a disabled lawyer's eyes or…
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Who owns copyright of a photo taken by a camera after the timer is set to 10 seconds?
Who owns copyright of a photo taken by a camera after the timer is set to 10 seconds? Is it the person who set the timer? But he/she didn't take any picture. A machine did.
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Does how a court interpret a contract depend on whether it's a layman or expert who wrote the contract?
The title sort of says it all, I'm wondering if a contract would be read differently or more literally if written, or signed, by a trained lawyer then if it was done by layman.
So let's say that I sign a contract with someone that has an ambiguous…
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Death Threats on the Internet
I recently read a bunch of stories about people making shooting/bomb threats on the internet and being arrested for it. These are often written in a matter-of-fact way.
But I know I have also seen people also make death threats in a joking context,…
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How is a plea agreement NOT a “threat or promise”?
I was viewing a televised case, the Judge asks the defendant “have any threats or promises been made to you to deliver this plea” before the defendant delivers their guilty plea as part of a plea bargain.
I was wondering, how is a plea bargain/plea…
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What is the legality of "known" harmful actions while pregnant?
There are lots of things that are generally accepted as harmful to a developing fetus, such as drinking alcohol, lots of caffeine, smoking, etc.
Would a pregnant woman who did something known to cause harm to the fetus be open to being charged with…
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Can an extra-terrestrial be legally adopted?
Background: My client has disclosed to me that he is an extra-terrestrial entity who arrived from another planet some time after 1900. He was sent to Earth in a rocket by his (now dead) parents, then placed up for adoption and legally adopted by two…
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Why must I consent to treatment at the eye doctor when implied consent is obvious?
Whenever I get a checkup with my eye doctor, they have me sign a consent-to-treat form. I never gave it a second thought. This last visit, though, the front desk attendant was distracted when I arrived. They knew I was there waiting, but forgot…
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Can disrupting an online video game be illegal?
Imagine for example, a person makes an online game unplayable by flooding the game with bot accounts, winning games through cheating etc, but the person doesn't steal any data and they aren't violating copyright either since they are just sending…
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Could Alex Jones' lawyer have claimed back the data he should have produced in discovery?
As I understand it from the news and some blogs:
Alex Jones and his lawyers were asked during discovery to provide any message from his cellphone that did mention the Sandy Hook massacre. He claimed he did not have any and he did not produce…
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Is it false advertising to call a closed-source program "open"?
IIRC, a court recently ruled that calling closed-source software "open-source" in marketing is false advertising. Does this apply to "open" on its own? For example, is the name of OpenVMS false advertising? My first thought when I saw the name was…
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Can a U.S. state bring action before the Supreme Court against another state for equal rights of its own citizens when they visit the other state?
Let’s make this hypothetical. Two U.S. states, East Lumbago and West Lumbago, which share a common border. It’s a First Amendment issue, specifically: “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble,…
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