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What happens if an insurance company does not mention a critical clause of a policy during a telephone purchase?
Suppose one phones an insurance company and arrange and pays for car insurance. One then receives the documentation and there is an additional clause that was not mentioned that invalidates the insurance. Is this clause valid?
The story that…
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Is lying in an application for a job at a private company, signed under penalty of perjury, prosecutable as perjury?
A person applies for a job at the XYZ company. The XYZ company is a private company. As part of applying he fills out an application and signs it under penalty of perjury. The application has several lies in it. Can he be criminal prosecuted for…
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What differentiates living as mere roommates from living in a marriage-like relationship?
For jurisdictions that provide that a couple become spouses after living together in a marriage-like relationship for a given period of time1, how is such a marriage-like relationship different than living as mere roommates?
1. For example, in…
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Why would Donald Trump be arrested?
The New York Times writes:
Donald J. Trump is preparing to walk into a Manhattan courtroom as both a defendant and a candidate, making final plans for his arrest on Tuesday [...].
Why would he be arrested? Is there a danger of flight? That seems…
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Why is the conviction rate in North America and Japan so high?
What causes the conviction rates in North America and Japan to be so high?
Are the cases usually strong where this happens? And what happens to weaker cases, do they result in an acquittal or do they generally not get cleared at…
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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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Why are there 23 members of the grand jury?
I know that a petit (trial) jury in a criminal case requires 12 jurors and I understand why the number 12 was chosen. But why does our U S Constitution, which is modeled after the Magna Carta, require 23 members of the grand jury when the Magna…
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Where do executive agencies obtain their power to effectively legislate?
Large portions of the Code of Federal Regulations are enacted by executive agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration, rather than by Congress. The parts that I have seen written by Congress are…
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In the U.S., what happens to intellectual property that has escheated to a state government?
A recent answer to a question here about the legality of publishing a work for which the copyright owner cannot be found mentions
If the owner has no legal heirs, in most jurisdictions the property escheats to the government (in the US to the state…
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What is the place of birth of a child born in the embassy?
If someone living at an embassy abroad gave birth to a child on the embassy grounds, then what country and what place will be indicated on the birth certificate?
To clarify the question, let's assume that we mean the US embassy in another country.…
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What happens if the police discover evidence of a crime but did not have the proper warrants beforehand?
Imagine that the police entered someone's home completely randomly without proper authorization and searched every corner of the house. By chance, they stumbled upon a murder scene. In this situation, would the evidence they collected be allowed to…
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Concealing One's Identity from the Public When Purchasing a Home
I have heard, that in the United States, some individuals are able to conceal their identities from the public when purchasing a home by setting up a LLC and buying the house through the said corporation.
Is this true? and can someone explain how…
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Why are injuctions being taken out against climate change protest groups?
In the UK over the past couple of years, there have been spates of climate protest groups (Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, etc), causing public nuisance, including:
Gluing themselves to road surfaces to block them
Scaling bridges to block…
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Why do court opinions list multiple layers of citations?
It is common in for courts to cite case law. But why do they cite or note what their citations cite? Here's an example I just came across:
National Business Services, Inc. v. Wright, 2 F. Supp. 2d 701 (E.D. Pa. 1998) (citing Albert E. Price, Inc.…
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Can a wiki for a video game be created without authorization from the game creator?
Consider someone wants to create a wiki (user-editable community site) for Heroes of the Storm. The creator of a wiki site is not necessarily the author of any substantive content on the site, but might choose the logos, styles, initial…
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