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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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What is the copyright status of game screenshots?
Game art is under copyright of the designer or their company. When I play the game and take a screenshot, whose is the copyright?
Mine, because I played the game to that point and created the screenshot file;
The designer or their company, because…
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Is it legal to pretend to be the British monarch?
Is it legal for John Doe, in the UK, to claim to be king of the UK and insist on being called His Majesty King John II?
I'm not asking about impersonating the actual monarch (e.g. claiming to be King Charles III), but keeping one's real name but…
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Are there no limits to damage waivers or would this go too far?
I am going to make vacation on Hawaii next week. For one day we booked a Ziplining tour.
Just after the free cancelation date passed, I was sent a waiver which is required to be signed to participate.
And this waiver is something, even without…
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Can a person go to the court if she signed a contract not to go to court?
Suppose a couple signed a prenuptial contract that said they couldn't go to court regarding their divorce and custody of children. Everything must be resolved through mutual consensus and consultation of their respective families.
After some time,…
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Is it considered a breach of confidentiality if data is uploaded to a website which only makes that data available to the uploader?
I'm a developer working at a company that handles sensitive banking information and recently, I've had troubles organising my code and thus posted it in a private repository on Github, which only I can access in any way.
A week later, I got a notice…
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To what extent are England and Wales one completely wedded jurisdiction?
Are there any legal provisions that apply only to England or only to Wales but not respectively to the other? Why are they so closely associated with each other as to have just one tag on the site, but Northern Ireland and Scotland each seem to be…
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Can a parent insist that her child (teen) stop assisting police?
This is based on a situation early in the novel The Witness by Norah Roberts.
Suppose that a sixteen-year-old girl (E) witnessed a serious crime, in fact a double murder, apparently by an organized crime figure. E reports the crime to the police,…
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