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Can prisoners of war be exchanged against their will?
Assume the following situation:
You live under an authoritarian regime.
Your country is at war with another country, which has a far more favorable human rights record.
Your attitude of your regime is critical, and you see the war as…
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Is it legal to break into a locked car to get a child out in hot weather?
The NHTSA's page about heat stroke in cars seems to imply that if you see a child left in a locked car on a hot day, you should break into the car to get the child out. "If you see a child alone in a locked car, get them out immediately and call…
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Can I get reimbursed if police shot the window of my car during a standoff?
My car was parked in the parking lot of a large chain grocery store, upon returning to my car I found the police in a standoff with a suspect with my vehicle right at the center. I asked if I could move my car but the officers got angry and started…
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Do disclaimers need to be capitalized?
Are disclaimers of warranty, liability, and the like legally required to be in all-caps? For example, the "disclaimer of warranty" section from the GNU GPL:
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT…
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Could double jeopardy protect a murderer who bribed the judge and jury to be declared not guilty?
Assume the following hypothetical case: a well-known multi-billionaire is holding an event with lots of invitees, (so there is no doubt about his identity), then in front of many witnesses and live cameras takes out a gun and murders several people,…
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Is youtube-dl takedown due to their tests which use copyrighted content?
The DMCA takedown notice posted on GitHub's youtube-dl page seems to be primarily based on the fact that youtube-dl is expressly advertised as a tool to "circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services", to the…
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Do the UK TV licensing rules disregard innocent until proven guilty?
I don't have a TV Licence. I use Netflix and Amazon Prime. In the UK you have to state that you don't have a TV Licence and sign a declaration to that effect every 2 years (unless you then get a licence).
When signing my declaration there was a note…
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How to store refusal of cookie consent
If a user refuses cookies on a website, then how can that website store that refusal? As far as I can tell, the GDPR requires you to store both consent to and refusal of personal data storage. But it seems to me that there is a catch 22 here: they…
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Pregnant spouse slipped abortion pills unknowingly. What would the legal ramifications be?
Suppose a partner to a pregnant woman gave her an abortion pill which successfully aborted the pregnancy. Suppose that this was done in a non-violent way, unbeknownst to the woman.
One could argue this is murder, however, if the woman took the…
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How to protect assets from being passed to a beneficiary in a will when they are likely to die soon also
I'm going through the process of creating a simple (my first) last will and testament.
I'm young with modest assets. I'm married with no children and live in the United States. I'd like to have something in place to make things as seamless as…
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Do Legal Documents Require Signing In Standard Pen Colors?
I have a question as to whether or not legal documents signed in non standard pen colors (Anything other than blue or black) are valid.
I carry a purple pen around that use for everyday writing tasks, and when I was going to sign a document, someone…
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What is the purpose of a disclaimer like "this is not legal advice"?
If someone who is not a lawyer is giving out legal advice, does it make any difference if they include a disclaimer along the lines of "this is not legal advice"?
For the purposes of this question, I assume legal advice means one party instructing…
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Can "Dumb Starbucks" be legally considered Fair Use as satire or parody?
About a year ago, a new, familiar-looking coffee shop opened in LA. Their reasoning for this was, basically, that it's making fun of the popular coffeehouse chain and is thus fair use:
Naturally, it attracted a lot of attention and was later…
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Can the Cyber Resilience Act make it illegal to retire?
Suppose Alice develops some software and releases it under an open source licence. She receives just enough money to be counted as "commercial". This may be donations from users, it may be tokens for contributing to a cryptocurrency project, and…
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At what point is it "legal" to overthrow the government?
It has been argued that the point of the 2nd amendment is to overthrow a tyrannical government.
In the Declaration it states that “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to…
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