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Is there precedent for Supreme Court justices recusing themselves from cases when they have strong ties to groups with strong opinions on the case?
According to this article in Newsweek, people are calling for Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case because she has strong ties to anti-gay Christian groups. While these people are probably right that she is…
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Does the Satanic Temples new abortion 'ritual' allow abortions under religious freedom?
The Satanic Temple has recently announced an abortion ritual. It's clearly a parody ritual added only after abortion was made illegal, but then again the USA tends to be very generous with their definition of religion, to the point that it's hard…
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What is the limit to my entering an unlocked home of a stranger to render aid without explicit permission
As I understand it in the USA if I, a normal citizen, walking by a stranger's home and witness them suddenly get electrocuted or otherwise seriously harmed I'm allowed to enter their home to try to render aid, even uninvited, since I have a…
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Would a Trump-nominated Supreme Court justice be expected to recuse themselves from a Trump case?
As of Oct 21, 2022, the January 6 Committee has issued a subpoena to former president Trump, setting up the potential for a case against Trump to end up in front of the Supreme Court. I spent awhile trying to find precedent on what would happen were…
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Is it legal to publish a ''copy" of the Constitution with fake text added?
Would it be legal to publish a copy of the Constitution with an extra article that is not part of the real constitution, with no indication that it was added, i.e. intending to mislead readers?
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Is it patent infringement to produce patented goods but take no compensation?
There are many experimental tools in biological research that cost researchers an exorbitant amount (for example, single-cell RNA sequencing technology) - would someone be infringing on a patent (or likely, multiple patents) if they choose to…
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Why would a jury award more punitive damages than is allowed by the law?
I read on https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1102118755/depp-heard-trial-verdict:
The seven-member jury found that Depp is entitled to $10 million in compensatory damages and punitive damages of $5 million. But, because Virginia state law limits…
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What does a lawyer do if they know for absolute certain that their client is guilty?
Say that a person is accused of committing a crime, they either hire a lawyer or have one appointed to them. Some time later, the lawyer learns that their client most certainly committed the crime. Perhaps the client shows the lawyer a video of them…
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Could asking an author for a copy of their research article be illegal?
I've been following an interesting Twitter conversation which raised the idea that merely asking a researcher for a copy of a paper they've written could be against the law. From the linked tweet:
you would be soliciting the violation of the law by…
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Legality of adding vaccination record to the US CDC Covid card yourself
I'm a US resident and got my main Covid vaccinations in the US recorded on the US CDC card. I also got one booster shot abroad and would like to have it added to my US CDC card to have all my shots documented in one place. I talked to various Health…
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Can a spyware or a virus act legally with EULA?
Lets think there is a virus that acts like a software. Its acting like a regular software. It's installation is visible to user and again like a regular software, it asks user to accept its End-user License Agreement.
Everyday, we all install…
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"Pressing charges" - is it needed to bring a charge?
In movies, it is often the case that we see police decline to proceed with a case because the victim "refused to press charges". Recently we saw this with the battery of Chris Rock by Will Smith on global TV that the LAPD refused to bring charges on…
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Is it allowed to non-consensually submit someone's diary as evidence?
In episode 12, season 4 of The Office, called "The Deposition", the diary of a witness (Michael Scott) is used as evidence, without the witness's consent. The diary was taken by the suer, Jan Levinson, who was Soctt's girlfriend at the time. This…
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Can a "repo man" be arrested and charged for repossessing the wrong car (or other asset)
Is it a crime for a repo man to accidentally repo the wrong car?
I'm sure at least occasionally they'd repo the wrong car. The bank (or whoever owned the loan) had already sent notices and tried other options. They had to do quite a bit of…
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When can a US police officer stop me from recording our encounter?
During any encounter with a US police officer, under what circumstances would the officer have the right to force me to stop recording our encounter with my smart phone, and can he prevent me from retrieving my phone if I don't have it out already…
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