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Can a child receive the death penalty?
Has there ever been a case of the death penalty being given in the USA to a child? Is this currently legal? Has it always been legal, or has this recently changed? What are SCOTUS's views on the matter?
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What is the public safety purpose of suspension of habeas corpus?
After being reminded by this Axios article that government is once again expressing interest in the suspension of habeas corpus, I've been trying to understand (not for the first time) that there is a specific justification in Article I Section 9 of…
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How do you sue what is likely to be a shell company?
From this question on the Travel.SE, the OP is having trouble with an online travel agent that uses an LLC agent's address in Sheridan, Wyoming as its contact address. When searching online for this address, multiple links pop up suggesting that…
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Does a positive outcome for the victim of a crime give the perpetrator a defense?
A thief steals a car right before a natural disaster occurs, which would have certainly destroyed it, then later he returns it to the owner (or gets caught and the car is retrieved intact).
Would the fact that his actions saved the owner's property…
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Are jails liable for negligence when prisoners get hurt?
If sexual harassment or poor/dangerous working conditions happen in a company, that company is often liable for damages or gets fined by the state/an appropriate government oversight body.
Similar to companies, are public prisons/jails at all liable…
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Using savings to buy a house to move into before divorce process is initiated
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Bob and Alice have agreed they should get divorced, but they haven't done anything about it yet. Things aren't particularly amicable and it's likely it will all be executed according to the fine detail of the law.
They have 2 young children…
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Could a lawyer be disbarred for fighting for a 'frankly unconstitutional position'?
Allegedly, in a hearing in front of Judge Coughenour in Seattle, the following happened:
Judge c: "Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order," [...] "It just…
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Why are Jersey and Guernsey not considered sovereign states?
They are not part of the UK (or any other country) and are entirely self-governing. They have the same head of state as the UK but so does e.g. Canada. They are tiny and choose to delegate some government tasks to the UK, but the same could be said…
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Can Sherlock Holmes be convicted of killing Dr. Grimesby Roylott?
Inspired by The Adventure of the Speckled Band. The following description contains SPOILERS.
Near the end of the story, Dr. Roylott sends a venomous snake down a rope with Holmes on the other end. Holmes was expecting the snake, so he struck the…
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Why do Chief Justice Roberts, and Judge Posner, knowingly not read fine print?
Many cases underscore "the importance of reading and understanding the terms and conditions of the contract". See Toll (FGCT) Pty Ltd v Alphapharm Pty Ltd [2004] HCA 52, [43].
More recently, in words that are apposite to the present case, in…
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What is the anti-trust argument made by X Corp's recent lawsuit against advertisers that boycotted X/Twitter
X Corp. has filed a lawsuit against the various advertisers that boycotted X/twitter after Musk took over. The articles I found didn't elaborate much on the lawsuit but what little they do say leaves me wondering what law the advertisers allegedly…
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Does GDPR's "Legitimate Interest" allow spam?
I just received an unsolicited email from a company that wanted to sell me their services. They claim they do "Functional Service Provision (FSP)", whatever that is, tailored for biotech companies. I am a C-level employee of a biotech company, but…
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What if you "don't understand" your Miranda rights?
As I understand it, if a police officer doesn't read the Miranda warning, any answers you give to their questions can be dismissed in court. (I'm sure there are exceptions to this).
If they read the Miranda warning, you have the option to plead the…
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What are the consequences that European standards being cited in law must be publicly accessible, but are protected by copyright?
In a jugdgment published this week, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on a complaint that some technical norms set as European Standards by a Standards Organisation are available only behind a paywall, despite them being cited by…
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Is accusing someone of a crime slander if you believe the accusation to be true?
I have just read a short story ("The Disagreeable Man", by Henry Cecil) in which a dubious (to me) legal trick is used to con a small town out of a significant amount of money. I want to know if the story is legally plausible. Spoilers abound in…
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