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Is "legalese" necessary?
I've noticed large corporations use language in their legal documents that sounds very different than how a normal person would speak. Is there a point to using legalese or is old fashioned plain English sufficient? For example "Thou shall not kill"…
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is estate responsible for debt of car-loan co-signed by the decedant?
My mother co-signed a car loan for her grandson ~3 years prior to her death . He defaulted on the loan and the car was repo'd AFTER her death. Can the loan company come after her WV estate for the debt? The car was sold prior to the estate receiving…
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Does the German GDPR require storing the data in a German datacenter for a tele-health company?
I co-founded a tele-health startup, we are expanding to Germany,
we have gone through the GDPR, and implemented most of it, however, we didn't quite understand the data residency part and found conflicting information online.
Should the data be…
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Do favors by friends and family create a monetary debt?
If someone has a business and has a favor done to help out with the business, by a spouse, other relative, or just a friend. Can the favor-doer later-on sue the business owner for money for it?
I'm not referring to a case where there was some…
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If a stolen item is stolen again, who has the liability?
This is a follow up on a poorly phrased question. Assume a car is the only asset anyone has in this scenario.
Person B steals a car from person A by forging the registration in a fraudulent manner.
Then Person C steals the car.
What happens to the…
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Can I name my app using the name of a long defunct company?
I am working on an app and want to name it Vidmark. Apparently, this name is the name of a long-defunct company (since 2001). Could I get into trouble using this name?
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Will be asked to come back to work - wife cannot due to children
Due to COVID-19 all schools were closed (At least here in MI - I am certain everywhere). My wife's work is starting to ask when she will return. Unfortunately she has to become our 3 daughter's teacher - at least until the end of June. Our…
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Are there any jurisdictions in the world where dueling is still legal?
Is there any place in the world where it is still legally possible to kill someone in a duel and not be charged? If not, when and where was the last place to outlaw the practice?
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How to form a company in the US while keeping founder information private?
Suppose that I want to form a company in the US while keeping my information and that of my co-founders private. How could I go about doing it?
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Is an abuse of power necessarily a criminal offence?
Trying to make sense of the conflicting opinions regarding the 2020 impeachment proceedings in the USA. In particular, is the claim that an abuse of power does not necessarily has to be a criminal offense valid? That is, can a government official…
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Do you have to obey English-only traffic signs in Toronto?
Canada is bilingual, yet some major metros like the Greater Toronto Area have all of their traffic signs in English only, without a French duplicate.
Is this legal or not? Do you have to respect such signs, e.g. no turn Mon-Fri, or are they…
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If an american is attacked or discriminated by his status as american, is he protected by anti discrimination laws?
Recently a person has been jailed for 16 years for burning a flag which represents a group of people meeting certain conditions in United States. This was deemed as discrimination and a hate crime if I understood correctly. But we also see a lot of…
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Threatening to discontinue a service for a client
Say someone advertises for their website and says "Its 100% free to sign up" then have them check a checkbox acknowledging that the owner of the site can cancel the service for any reason when they are signing up.
Now 5 months later the owner of the…
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Conflict between a religious belief that accounts for the existence of transgender people vs. one that doesn't
Country: US
State: Michigan
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Ann belongs to a denomination that accepts the existence of transgender people as what they claim they are. Ann starts a company that grows to over 25 employees, at which point the company must follow EEOC…
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Why was Wouter Basson never charged with crimes against humanity for Project Coast?
Project Coast was a biological weapons program that the South African government developed in the 1970's and 1980's. The leading scientist and administrator of Project Coast was a cardiologist called Wouter Basson This was a massive, ambitious…
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