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When, if ever, is bribery legal?
Bribing public officials, policemen, etc. to be corrupt in the execution of their duties is illegal. However, consider the following hypothetical:
"Robert Payne" is a wealthy businessman. ...
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Conflicting disabilities
While rare, you sometimes see situations where you cannot feasibly accommodate two employees at once. For example, you might end up with one employee who depends on a service dog, and another who has ...
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Is "I'll see you in court!" legally binding?
Say that "Joe" really doesn't like something that "Donald" does, and they end up getting in a heated argument over it. Donald does not budge, and eventually Joe gets fed up and ...
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Is it legal to count garage as living space
Location: Eustice, Texas
I know that depending on jurisdiction it can be possible to convert a garage into a "living space" provided certain requirements are met. My question is about a ...
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What state does a web hosting service get sued in?
Bob uses a web hosting service. He has a dispute over a bill and did not get a customer service solution. Bob wants to take the web hosting service to small claims.
The terms of service state: This ...
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Texas' refusal to cooperate w/ Homeland Security based on DHS being "fixated" on a recent ("misled") Supreme Court order; supported by law/precedent?
CBS News' January 26, 2024 Texas attorney general refuses to grant federal agents full access to border park: "Your request is hereby denied" links to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's ...
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Damages resulting from suicide
"Juan" is driving along on his way to work. At the same time, a terminally depressed woman commits suicide by jumping off a tall building. She ends up landing on the roof of Juan's car, a la ...
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Am I required to forward misaddressed mail? [duplicate]
I tried googling this and found that it is probably illegal to throw away someone else's mail but the only thing I found from the US postal service itself was instructions on how to return the mail ...
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Is it illegal to restrict types of shifts available to women?
The scenario I'm imagining is a part-time job, where there's no sex discrimination in the actual hiring based on sex, but the type (and possibly) quantity of shifts available is restricted by sex. ...
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Extent to which a will is holographic
"Albus" and "Severus" are making a will together. They do not want to bother with an attorney or witnesses, so Severus handwrites it, under the assumption that doing so will make ...
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Retroactive lack of testamentary capacity
"Juan" makes his will. A year later, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and so loses testamentary capacity. Often, the medical diagnosis for Alzheimer's comes well after the victim's ...
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Accidentally killing someone while purposefully beating them up
"Vladimir" decides to beat up "Juan". While it can be proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Vladimir did not intend to kill Juan (merely rough him up a bit), the beating causes ...
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What is the "important thing" that can make a true statement defamatory wrt the X/Media Matters lawsuit?
It is in the news that Elon Musk's social media platform X has sued Media Matters a media watchdog group. Media Matters has published multiple reports about X alleging adverts for major companies have ...
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Is it legal to keep products I never ordered that were delivered to my residence?
If I ordered a box of paper from Amazon but I got 10 iPad Pros from them instead, can I keep it without notifying or returning them? If it wasn't a product delivery but instead a gift or a letter sent ...
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Fraudulent misrepresentation by a third party
Say, for purposes of conjecture, that "Celine" fraudulently tells "Alice" that something will happen. Also assume for the purposes of this question that, in reasonable reliance on ...
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