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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Are the UK and Sweden in violation of international law with respect to detaining Julian Assange?
According to https://freeassangenow.org/faq and https://justice4assange.com/:
Why do the UK and Sweden disobey international law?
There is a conflict between the United Kingdom’s obligations to the 1951 UN refugee convention and its obligations…
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Was Roscoe Filburn ordered to destroy his crops?
The Wikipedia article on Wickard v. Filburn claims that:
Filburn was ordered to destroy his crops...
Numerous other sources also claim this, including two that I would normally consider reliable.
The Globe and Mail:
The U.S. Department of…
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Have US judges ever declared someone not guilty due to determinism?
I am often confronted with arguments for or against biological or social determinism versus free will. One of the arguments I hear regularly is that determinism is bad for society because denying the possibility "to have done otherwise" undermines…
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Does the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms not apply to government hiring practices?
While I was reading Yahoo! News today, I came across this article which discussed British Columbia's New Democratic Party's affirmative-action rules:
According to the BC NDP's affirmative-action rules, [being "a straight, old, able-bodied, white…
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Is Rand Paul's apparent outing of Trump's whistleblower a crime?
A tweet from @SethFromThe716 is very popular
(4.2K likes at the time of this question).
It says
[U.S. Senator] Rand Paul violated the law by publicly outing the whistleblower [of President Trump], and he violated the Senate Impeachment rules by…
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Do UK background checks successfully ‘prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups’?
When working with children in the UK, it's common to hear griping about the restrictions and administrative overhead imposed by compliance with the Disclosure & Barring (DBS) regime. Despite this criticisms, however, it's generally accepted that it…
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Was a patent ever granted for a method of making lines thicker?
I've found some sources that claim IBM had gotten a patent on making a line thicker using digital means. Does such a patent exist or is this a myth?
Here is one example of the claim from a Forbes article by attorney Gary L. Reback
The chief blue…
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Do Australian pedophiles travel to Southeast Asia to abuse children there?
Australia is considering a law that would ban international travel for registered pedophiles. The reasoning seems to be the assumption that they frequently travel to Asia or south pacific islands for the main purpose to abuse children.
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Does North Korea require entry visas for its own citizens?
According to this article, it does: https://www.nknews.org/2014/12/north-koreas-passports-and-how-they-use-them/
... both citizens and foreigners need both an entry and an exit visa. Usually they are issued as one “exit and entry,” but there are…
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Can I avoid property tax by showing a judge my land grant?
In this article or here the author says that there is truly a legal way to stop paying the property tax for your house.
These steps are legal, and you can use them to accomplish the goal to stop paying property taxes. [...]
You will need to get a…
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Is the "Right to Bear Arms" an Individual Right or a State's Right to Defense?
"A well regulated Militia" being the first part of the Amendment appears to steer the legislation towards militia/national guard - especially with "being necessary to the security of a free state" being right after it.
However, "the right of the…
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Did hundreds of thousands of people die due to lack of seat belts in the period before they were made mandatory?
In a recent interview, Tesla founder Elon Musk gives a historical reference as example of slow government reaction to public harm:
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Take something like seatbelts. It was known for, I dunno, a decade or more that seatbelts would have a…
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Has anyone been convicted of campaign finance violations by paying an informant before an election?
The Atlantic reports
In pleading guilty to violations of campaign-finance laws, Cohen said that the then-candidate Trump had directed him to do so, arranging payments to two women who alleged affairs with Trump in order to hush them up and affect…
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Are some vegetables from China being labeled as "Product of New Zealand" in Australia?
There are a number of claims going around on Facebook that foods purchased in Australia which are labelled as being from New Zealand are from China. This 2014 article in Macro Business explains:
It works like this: Vegetables from China are sent…
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Is Ellen DeGeneres legally married because of Obama?
From 'I am a legally married woman because of him': Ellen DeGeneres farewells Obama
"I want to personally thank him for changing my life," DeGeneres said.
"I am a legally married woman because of him, and so is my wife."
By contrast, the…
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