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Is virtual child pornography illegal?
If a company made a child pornography anime (so not using real children, just drawings), would it be illegal?
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Can a city hire someone to mow my grass (against my wishes)?
Recently the city sent a crew to mow my grass without notifying me or giving me any advance notice of any kind. Did they violate my rights by sending these people without my permission? (Details below)
My front yard was in full compliance with…
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What if you "don't understand" your Miranda rights?
As I understand it, if a police officer doesn't read the Miranda warning, any answers you give to their questions can be dismissed in court. (I'm sure there are exceptions to this).
If they read the Miranda warning, you have the option to plead the…
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Is accusing someone of a crime slander if you believe the accusation to be true?
I have just read a short story ("The Disagreeable Man", by Henry Cecil) in which a dubious (to me) legal trick is used to con a small town out of a significant amount of money. I want to know if the story is legally plausible. Spoilers abound in…
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Looking up a Texas land title case from 1901
I'm a historian, not a lawyer. I would like to get the documents, including the plaintiff and defendant's filings, the witnesses' depositions, and the judgment, for a civil land title case from a district court in a west Texas county in 1901. My…
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How can I make a fan game entirely legally?
I would like to make a video game based on IP I do not own. I understand that there are many legal issues with this and it seems that most of the answers online are either “you can never do it” or “nobody will catch you”. I would like to know what…
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Is it illegal to pick up items with deposit [Pfand] on the street in Germany?
Many bottled products in Germany have a property that you can get back money when you return the bottle to the supermarket (Pfand). I often notice bundles of glass bottles hanging around in the street. Would it be legal for me to take them and give…
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Can a person plead guilty without being charged?
If a person has committed a crime punishable by a fine and was not caught, but wants to pay the fine for moral reasons, is it possible to plead guilty and pay the fine without being charged with a crime?
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Is there any merit in the argument "this data processing is required for my business model so it is strictly necessary in terms of data protection"?
The company BlockAdblock has an argument that their anti-adblock script is compliant with EU data protection law. It is quite long and has many somewhat unrelated aspects, and I certainly do not want to get into the specifics of the case. There is…
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How would mathematical demonstratives be used in a court?
I remember in a children´s show when I was little that one episode featured a court case where the villain was accused of having too much land area in contravention of the laws of the town they were in. Part of the point of the story was to tell…
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Is it legal to backdate monthly software license fees if you reactivate a license?
I live in the UK and use software from a US-based company. I currently pay a software licence fee of $150 every six months.
This covers access to support and access to monthly software updates, new features, security and bug fixes.
They are now…
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Has anyone been charged with a crime committed in space?
Has anyone, in any jurisdiction, ever been charged with a crime for acts (allegedly) committed in outer space?
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Why the same-sex marriage Supreme Court decision applies also to Puerto Rico when the Fourteen Amendment does not apply to territories?
This is in relation to a comment on this question that I also made.
In one of the comments, one of the users made this statement:
The Fourteenth Amendment talks about states (and Puerto Rico is not one), not about the federal government. "No State…
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Do schools have permission to use pictures containing my face taken inside school forever if I agreed to it?
On day one of my first year in high school me and basically every other students were given a few documents to sign. One of them included a clause that allowed the school to publish pictures of us doing activities on the school website. Back then I…
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Why would a clause apply until 21 years after the death of the last descendant of King Charles III?
Inspired by this question, why might any corporation draft a legal document containing provisions that are random, arbitrary, and completely beyond their control?
In case the question is deleted, it had to do with Disney maintaining control over its…
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