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What consequences could there be for Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- when he grows up?
I think it's obvious that Little Bobby Tables's mom has broken the law. Let's assume this is his legal name and does not break any naming laws; it's still probably illegal, because she obviously gave him that name with intent to harm computer…
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May a person accept and keep bribes so long as they act lawfully?
This isn't a situation I'm in, but rather something I'm curious about.
If a private person (outside of any position of authority) is bribed to keep an illegal act they witnessed secret, but chooses to report the crime to the police regardless, is…
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If I use stolen money to gamble, do I get to keep the winnings?
If a person were to steal $10,000 from a convenience store and gamble with it, winning $500,000.
And later they were caught, would the government only claw back the $10,000 or also the $500,000?
Would there be any legal way of "saving the ill-gotten…
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Why are there two case numbers for United States v. Trump?
There are two almost identical case numbers assigned for the case United States v. Trump. The dockets are almost identical.
1:23-cr-00257-TSC USA v. TRUMP PACER CourtListener
1:23-cr-00257-TSC-1 - TRUMP, DONALD J. PACER CourtListener
What is the…
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What is the smallest audience for a communication that has been deemed capable of defamation?
Descriptions of the criteria for defamation seem widely to describe any statement that is communicated to a third party as being defamatory if they are (broadly speaking) false and harmful.
This seems to allow for the possibility that relatively…
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What is the legal basis for judges being able to see classified material?
Marcy Wheeler, in her emptywheel Twitter account, recently tweeted:
I addressed this question in this post. No, Cannon does not need a
clearance. Her access comes via dint of her responsibilities, just
like Members of Congress who need to access…
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Is it bigamy to marry someone to whom you are already married?
The goal is to obtain legal proof of marriage with the least amount of effort, such as travelling overseas and hiring translators and notaries. This is not a "renew vows" situation.
Answers for New York preferred, but answers pertaining to other…
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Ex-slaves not born in U.S. and 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment states that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
Did cases ever arise in courts concerning any ex-slaves not born in the United States…
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Is it illegal for a firm to train an AI model on a CC BY-SA 4.0 corpus and make a commercial use of it without distributing the model under CC BY-SA?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/388551/178179 mentions that SE will force some firms to pay to be allowed to train an AI model on the SE data dump (CC BY-SA licensed) and make a commercial use of it without distributing the model under CC…
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Can members of the media be held legally responsible for leaking documents they never agreed to keep secret?
Larry the Leaker is high up in the US government, and has access to highly classified information/documents. He goes to John the Journalist, and tells him to publish all of it. Obviously, Larry has agreed to a bunch of stuff telling him not to leak…
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Can an attorney plead the 5th if attorney-client privilege is pierced?
In the investigation related to Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department is seeking to pierce attorney-client privilege relating to several bits of testimony and discovery items they're seeking from Trump's attorney, Evan Corcoran. Such a move isn't…
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Stopping a warrantless police search?
In general, how much can a person do to stop a warrantless search beyond verbally refusing consent? Is there anything further that can be done to prevent the search in the first place or make legal action after the fact more likely to prevail?
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At what point does combining integrated circuits yield something patentable?
I am considering at which point an electronic circuit-based product becomes patentable. If I were to simply design a new electronic circuit by implementing a single integrated circuit (IC) from a manufacturer, I would think that this cannot be…
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Do courts generally run at a loss, run at a profit, or generally break even?
Pursuant to a previous question, about a case where the courts seem to have incurred a significant loss in hearing it, what is the general/average position?
For example, many types of routines matters may be decided in a 5 or 10 minute hearing…
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How often do people who make complaints that lead to acquittals face repercussions for making false complaints?
In response to a recent question and others related to it, it appears that defendants who are found guilty, despite lying, are rarely punished further apart from the conviction.
However, what happens if the allegations are found to be patently…
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