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Arrested for Drunk Driving - It should be innocent until prove guilty right?
I have been told that in some states that if you are arrested for drunk driving, and not yet gone to trial, then you have to install in your car a ignition breathalyzer. It seems to me that having to ...
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Can I get a second UK passport for my child? [closed]
Me and my ex are both UK citizens, as is our son. We married in the UK but moved later to the EU where we subsequently divorced. My partner got a sole residence for the child but we share the custody. ...
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Does an executor handle requests outside of the will? [closed]
A friend of mine asked me if I would be an executor on their will some years ago. I agreed to it, and as far as I know I am listed in the documents as such. More recently, they have had some health ...
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How could a wealthy tycoon fix murder charges? [closed]
My question is based on a famous movie "Inception". Lemme remind you the plot:
Mr. Cobb (Di Caprio, mind hacker) is a fugitive wanted for murder of his wife in the U.S., likely with an ...
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Soundcloud is rejecting my songs from my premium account for distribution with all fake reasons, what to do? [closed]
I got premium account for Soundcloud because they said you could freely upload to 60 platforms. Now I submit songs for distribution and they reject them with all fake reasons "heavily edited ...
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Using a dead person's credit card?
Person A has full access to person B's credit card, with person B's permission.
Person B dies, but person A does not return the credit card.
Person A keeps using credit card and paying off statement ...
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How different should content be to not violate copyright?
Related to a discussion in Academia community. The following practices are rather commonplace in academic community and seem not to raise many legal objections... yet, the angry responses that my ...
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UK England House repossession - owner doesn’t allow access. What are the next steps? [closed]
An acquaintance has a house but fell behind on mortgage payments and has had two repossession orders. Baliffs have come round twice but were denied entry (by a group of people). They seem to think ...
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Judge put a stay on an injunction against Trump's birthright citizenship EO - can someone decipher this?
In the class action lawsuit against Trump's Executive Order that purports to end birthright citizenship for certain people, a judge today issued a preliminary injunction against the administration, ...
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Victim unwittingly orders items through a scammer, who uses a stolen credit card while keeping the victim's money. What's the victim's status?
Someone steals credit cards and used them to order goods. On money.stackexchange.com there is a discussion how to turn this into cash. One theory:
They pretend to be a company selling goods online. I ...
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Can a person be retried for a lesser crime after being acquitted of a larger one? [duplicate]
In this example, imagine an individual is on trial for first degree murder with a lot of evidence against them, but they are eventually acquitted. United States double jeopardy law prohibits them from ...
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Multiple asset valuations — which to use for taxes?
Ebenezer McDuck (Scrooge McDuck's younger and slightly less wealthy cousin) wants to reduce his taxes. As a result, he decides to donate an old painting he had sitting around to an art museum so that ...
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What does "Capacity: ROWN" mean in Ontario parcel abstract?
Ontario parcel abstracts (aka parcel registers or PINs/Property Identification Numbers) have a section that says "CAPACITY: ROWN":
Source: ONLand / registry office
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What does &...
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When receiving dual-licensed content, at what point do you have to make the choice about which license terms to follow?
Suppose I receive a creative work that has been dual-licensed. One license is a standard Creative Commons license, such as CC BY-SA 4.0. The second license is a custom license that grants them "...
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Distributing Dual-Licensed content without explicit rights to relicense or sublicense the original work
Suppose I author a creative work and dual-license it to someone. One license is a standard Creative Commons license, such as CC BY-SA 4.0. The second license is a custom license that grants them "...
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