Use this tag for claims about the law. This must be almost always be accompanied by a country tag, such as [united-states] to clarify which country's laws the claim is about.
Questions tagged [law]
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Does Canadian law allow the government to take children away from parents that don't accept their gender identity?
Canada to take kids from Parents that don’t recognize Gender Confusion
A Canadian province has passed a law that gives rights to the government to take away children from families that don’t accept their kid’s chosen “gender identity” or “gender…

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Do Virgina and Connecticut have the death penalty for those who work on Sunday?
A Brazilian Seventh-Day Pastor called Samuel Ramos claims in this sermon that Virginia and Connecticut have had the death penalty for those who work on Sundays since 1610:
[5:30] Porém, existem 2 Estados Americanos, que são Virginia e Connecticut.
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Does legalizing drugs (controlled substances) actualy lead to a decrease in their use?
The two memes below make the claim that legalizing drugs will actually lead to a decrease in their use.
Image states:
Portugal, A Real Land of the Free. In 2001 Portugal decriminalized personal possession of all drugs. Opponents predicted a…

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Is downloading copyrighted material legal in Switzerland?
In Switzerland, is it legal to download copyrighted material without permission?
In Switzerland you'll get all kinds of answers to the question "Is it Legal?". The same goes of course for the internet where you will find articles that tell you it's…

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Are incarcerated pedophiles protected by special laws in federal prison in the US?
Andrew Auernheimer (aka. weev) is reported to have said last Friday:
"Did you know they have special laws to protect kid-fuckers in federal
prison?” Andrew Auernheimer asked me with a grin on his face. “I can't
hit them, it's a five year felony…

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Does Alabama or Arkansas have (unenforced) laws permitting men to beat wives up to once per month?
A conversation on Reddit mentioned that in Alabama, the law states that it's legal for a man to beat his wife as long as he doesn't do it more than once per month. If this law is still around, I assume that it's not enforced. However, I'd like to…

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Do (or did) post offices in Singapore have a policy of attending to men with long hair last?
I recently saw this photo on Facebook. Is the contained claim true, that post offices in Singapore will attend to men with long hair last?

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Is it against the law to sing off-key in North Carolina?
According to Metro's Weird fact of the day:
It is against the law to sing off-key in North Carolina.
Is there such a law?

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Is it illegal to tie campaign contributions to a specific policy goal?
The petition Investigate Chris Dodd and the MPAA for bribery after he publicly admitted to bribing politicans to pass legislation implies that there is something illegal about this threat to withdraw campaign contributions to politicians:
"Those…

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Is most intermediate level radioactive waste according to UK regulations barely radioactive?
Lester Haines writes in Sellafield's nuclear waste measured in El Reg units:
Most intermediate level waste is barely radioactive at all. If you put
a completely legal luminous watch in a barrel containing half a tonne
of dirt, that dirt would…

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Does an HHS proposal to modify Obamacare policies allow doctors to discriminate against LGBT patients?
This article claims that
The Trump administration is moving to scrap an Obama-era policy that protected LGBTQ patients from discrimination.
However the proposal in question claims it would only be removing unenforceable provisions which were…

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Did the IG change his conclusion in the Sharyl Atkisson investigation?
In 2013, journalist Sharyl Atkisson accused the Obama Administration of hacking and surveillance of her computers. Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Justice, investigated this and found no evidence to support…

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Is it illegal to drink beer out of a bucket in St. Louis?
A while ago, a friend told me it was "illegal to drink beer out of a bucket on a curb in St. Louis." This seems crazy, and the internet [1] [2] [3] seems to just repeat it without citations. Is this a real law on the books in St. Louis (or…

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Is owning a bible punishable by death in North Korea?
This article claims that people may be killed for owning a bible. How true is it?

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Is it illegal to sell dolls that do not have human faces in France?
It is claimed that it is against the law to sell dolls that do not have human faces in France.
It is illegal to sell an ET doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human…

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