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How to "withdraw consent" without implying consent was ever given?

Privacy policy often states that one can "withdraw consent" to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data. Unfortunately, it is often the case that consent was given to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data for a particular…
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How can I deal with a lawyer who is ignoring the real client in favor of the technical client?

Imagine a situation where the client in a case is an elderly lady who is forgetful and completely inexperienced in the law and she relies on her son to help her with a legal case. The son engages an attorney and pays for the attorney, but the old…
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Is it legal for a group of drivers to completely "fill" a roundabout?

Suppose a group of drivers want to block all regular use of a particular roundabout, so they all just start driving in it in circles. Once they're all in, the roundabout is useless, because there are no car-length gaps between them. Are they doing…
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Do other countries have free speech protections similar to the First Amendment, and if so, how do those work?

A friend claimed the First Amendment was unnecessary, and mentioned that other countries tended to get along well without it. I realized I didn't actually know much about how freedom of speech or expression worked in other countries, and figured I'd…
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Can a married couple be charged with a traffic infraction?

In the state of Washington USA, my daughter and son-in-law were joint recipients of a red light camera ticket. The law clearly states that the "operator of the motor vehicle" is responsible for the fine, so it would seem to me that the burden of…
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Is it illegal to turn off someone’s loudspeakers in public?

Let’s suppose someone goes to a certain street and plays an audiobook recording about their political program every day on the speakers at loud volume. If someone walks up and switches the recording off so that it stops playing and causing a…
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Can an "FBI domain seizure" April Fools joke land you in jail?

I found this GitHub repository that contains collection of several different intelligence agency domain seizure pages, including FBI domain seizure. It is meant to be used by said agencies for real seized domains, but I figured out one of my April…
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Does “co-habitation” include people residing in the same house?

Standard visitation guideline for divorced parents states: NON-COHABITATION: Neither party shall co-habit with any other person unless related by blood or marriage in the presence of the minor child(ren), nor shall they allow any third parties to…
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Is it legal under Czech and EU legal system to punish people with prison sentences for publicly expressing their political views?

This site claims that (my emphasis): The Czech Republic's chief prosecutor has warned that expressing support for Russia’s attack on Ukraine could be a criminal offence, punishable by imprisonment. [...] Publicly backing the Russian invasion of…
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If a person punches my wife and I am right there, do I have a right to punch that person, or use a singular subduing technique in response?

Background The other day my wife and I were ordering takeout from a restaurant. As we were leaving there was a really narrow doorway of people coming in and out. My wife, probably out of a mix of tiredness and single mindedly getting back to the…
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How are five murder charges used for each defendant in the Arbery case?

I saw on the news that all three defendants were found guilty of murder of Ahmaud Arbery. I watched the verdict video and noticed the charges, and became confused when I heard that they each had been charged with 5 counts of murder. Each defendant…
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Is it legal in the US to leave a gun in the hands of a minor without oversight?

Reading about the detail of the trial of Rittenhouse I wondered how it was possible that a minor was allowed to go around holding a weapon. I searched on the internet and I read some blogs claiming that minors are allowed to hold weapons only in a…
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is it illegal to falsely use an unrelated act to block/ban things?

My school blocks many random things (like duckduckgo and drifthunters) swearing that they did it because of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), but that only really says to ban obsene content, child pornography, and to track what they do.…
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Can satellite images be copyrighted?

OpenStreetMap doesn't allow editors to trace satellite imagery from Google, claiming that the imagery is copyrighted and tracing it would be a copyright violation. But how can satellite images be copyrighted? In the US, as I understand it,…
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Is being left-handed a protected class in US discrimination law?

This is based on a recent (but no longer available) question that was asked on The Workplace but was not well-received there. US federal law provides for robust protections from discrimination for many different reasons - race, gender, religion,…
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