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Suppose an employee is hired by a firm for a period of one year. After the first year the employee may continue working for the company, until terminated, as an at will employee (For simplicity, let’s assume the contract explicitly contains a starting and ending date so there is no ambiguity as to the expiration of the... |
Is a firm required to arbitrate disputes arising after the expiration of employment contract? |
In [a recent answer on SE][1] @ _ohwilleke writes:
> that the case law does make clear that the standard to apply the
> arbitration clause is relatively modest **especially where one party has
> signed the agreement and another is a direct contractual successor to
> a signatory party**
And that:
> Courts ... |
[RCW 9.66.010][1] suggests that in "every place... [w]here vagrants resort... [e]very act unlawfully done and every omission to perform a duty, which act or omission [s]hall offend public decency" is an offense. However, my understanding is that the Washington state statute defining vagrancy was [repealed in 1975][2]. ... |
Questions asking for specific legal advice are off topic, so I'm not going to tell you what you should do or how you should do it. However, I'll address some misconceptions that you have:
> to protect me against potential lawsuits and future divorce
None of the scenarios will protect you from these. If you are a ... |
Questions asking for specific legal advice are off topic, so I'm not going to tell you what you should do or how you should do it. However, I'll address some misconceptions that you have:
> to protect me against potential lawsuits and future divorce
None of the scenarios will protect you from these. If you are a ... |
Questions asking for specific legal advice are off topic, so I'm not going to tell you what you should do or how you should do it. However, I'll address some misconceptions that you have:
> to protect me against potential lawsuits and future divorce
None of the scenarios will protect you from these. If you are a ... |
In regards, to, establishing attorney-client privilege what would happen if someone else paid for your legal council?
Do all the rules remain the same regardless of who pays the bill or is it maybe in your best interest to have your noble benefactor send you the money and just pay the bill yourself. (If at all possi... |
What would be the legal ramifications in regards to someone else paying your legal bills? |
In regards, to, establishing attorney-client privilege, and the related attorney-client confidentiality. What would happen if someone else paid for your legal council?
Do all the rules remain the same regardless of who pays the bill, or is it maybe in your best interest to have your noble benefactor send you the mon... |
Are these legal ways for a council to avoid dealing with the 2m boundary restriction for planning?
1. Only measure the fence months later when the ground level has been raised on the perpetrator's side of the fence after the council has repeatedly been told the ground was being raised with mud from another location ... |
There is a 2m height restriction on border fences in the UK.
Can the council allow that planning restriction to be circumvented if the perpetrator is claiming to have mental health problems? Can they allow this if those actions are having a detrimental effect on the lives of the victims?
|
There is a 2m height restriction on border fences in the UK.
Can the council allow that planning restriction to be circumvented if the perpetrator is claiming to have mental health problems? Can they allow this if those actions are having a detrimental effect on the lives of the victims?
In particular, the person... |
> My understanding of contract law is the original fees are implied if no new explicit agreement is signed and therefore the invoice amount should be $1,000. Is that correct?
No. At the outset, the presumption that the price would be equal to that of filings covered in the engagement letter is inaccurate. The actual... |
In [Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville][1], SCOTUS found that a particular statute criminalizing being a vagrant was unconstitutionally vague. The court does not offer an alternative acceptable definition of "vagrant". Washington (and other states) dealt with this by repealing the law against being a vagrant, but lef... |
This question is U.S. based.
I ask this because recently I was summoned for jury duty. When we were in the courtroom, the judge asked each of the jurors in the box a list of questions. One of them was their command/understanding of the English language.
One person said he didn't understand English and ignored t... |
There have been cases in the UK where paying someone's legal bills was interpreted as joining their case. So when A with no money libels someone, and B with deep pockets pays A's lawyer, then B risks being held liable for damages if A gets convicted. So B should be very careful. Just giving you money is probably the sa... |
> Is a firm required to arbitrate disputes arising after the expiration of employment contract?
The wording of this question is problematic. From your description it is doubtful that the contract truly expired at the end of the first year. It is valid for a contract to encompass multiple phases with different provis... |
There is a 2m height restriction on border fences in the UK.
Can the council allow that planning restriction to be circumvented if the perpetrator is claiming to have mental health problems? Can they allow this if those actions are having a detrimental effect on the lives of the victims?
In particular, the person... |
Are these legal ways for a council to avoid dealing with the 2m boundary restriction for planning?
1. Only measure the fence months later (where the perpetrator has delayed it that long) when the ground level has been raised on the perpetrator's side of the fence after the council has repeatedly been told the ground... |
> In regards, to, establishing attorney-client privilege, and the related attorney-client confidentiality. What would happen if someone else paid for your legal council?
Nothing. Attorney-client privilege is the CLIENTS privilege, not the attorney’s or the benefactors. It basically starts when the client starts ta... |
What amount of physical force, if any, can be used to prevent animal abuse (a dog's owner hitting the dog, with a minor present) in Oregon? Is it legal to restrain the owner? Take the dog to a safe area? |
What amount of force, if any, can be used to prevent animal abuse? |
In regards, to, establishing attorney-client privilege, and the related attorney-client confidentiality. What would happen if someone else paid for your legal counsel?
Do all the rules remain the same regardless of who pays the bill, or is it maybe in your best interest to have your noble benefactor send you the mon... |
Let's hypothetically say a person is arrested and booked into a county jail. During the intake process, their mugshot is taken. Let's also say that later on the arrest makes major news, even beyond local news, like regional and national news, and the person's mugshot is a part of the news coverage. The person was later... |
Does the Vietnamese law prohibit non Vietnamese to work as lawyers in Vietnam?
A "Vietnamese" for that matter is a citizen of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
Does the Vietnamese law prohibit non Vietnamese to work as lawyers in Vietnam? |
Let's hypothetically say a person is arrested and booked into a county jail. During the intake process, their mugshot is taken. Let's also say that later on the arrest makes major news, even beyond local news, like regional and national news, and the person's mugshot is a part of the news coverage. The person was later... |
Is selling an autographed mugshot of oneself a violation of Indiana's "Son of Sam" (notoriety-for-profit) law? |
Let's hypothetically say a person is arrested and booked into a county jail. During the intake process, their mugshot is taken. Let's also say that later on the arrest makes major news, even beyond local news, like regional and national news, and the person's mugshot is a part of the news coverage. The person was later... |
In the United States, who (if anyone) owns the copyright to [mugshots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot) taken by federal, state, or local employees? |
Who (if anyone) owns the copyright to mugshots in the United States? |
In the United States, who (if anyone) owns the copyright to [mugshots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot) taken by federal, state, or local employees?
If there is too much variation to cover exhaustively in a single answer, a general description of that variation or a few examples would be great. |
For research we are using official documents.
When official document publish as single PDF file or as regular web page it's difficult to hyperlink to a specific part of the document.
But our [technology stack][1] make it easy, but we have to keep sources on our web site.
Here is an example of `EU Commission's R... |
In the United States, who, if anyone, owns the copyright to [mugshots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot) (or perhaps _any_ "work") produced by federal, state, or local employees?
If there is too much variation to cover exhaustively in a single answer, a general description of that variation or a few examples w... |
Who, if anyone, owns the copyright to mugshots in the United States? |
In the United States, who, if anyone, owns the copyright to [mugshots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot) (or perhaps _any_ "work", if the principles generalize) produced by federal, state, or local employees?
If there is too much variation to cover exhaustively in a single answer, a general description of that... |
One major example of this is Steam. While most games on Steam have ESRB ratings, some not (such as Valve's own Dota 2).
Is this considered legal? |
It is legal to PC video game retailers to sell games without ESRB ratings? |
Is it legal to use a [TV-B-Gone][1] to turn off TVs in businesses, e.g. the ones playing sports channels in restaurants or the demo models in stores?
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone |
Is it legal to use a TV-B-Gone on a TV in a business? |
Most, if not all, free and open-source software (FOSS) licenses have a liability/warranty disclaimer. The GPL's disclaimer is especially long:
>15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
>
>THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDE... |
What warranty would gratis software have? |
If you are an investor who owns 30% of a business and the founder owns 70%, how do you prevent a situation where the founder decides to always take profits and not reinvest them to grow the business? Eventually, as an example, the founder uses the profits he took to start and focus on another similar business, which he... |
As an investor of a business, how do you prevent the founder from holding back growth? |
Is it legal for a customer to use a [TV-B-Gone][1] to turn off TVs in businesses, e.g. the ones playing sports channels in restaurants or the demo models in stores, without permission of the owner?
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone |
My aunt lives somewhere on the territory of European Union and I navigated to her house in street view mode on Google Maps. I noticed that by navigating those images you can see into her house!
You can clearly see that she has a flower pot in the ground floor window. I mean, this doesn't create any problem, but wha... |
It is legal for PC video game retailers to sell games without ESRB ratings? |
## Background
Date rape usually happens when someone uses narcotics to drug another into an unconscious state before engaging in sexual activity without their consent.
It is a pretty clear cut case when someone uses pharmaceutical drugs to incapacitate someone, but what about more benign substances such as everyd... |
Is Alcohol Considered A Date-Rape Drug? What If Both Parties Were Intoxicated? |
## Background
Date rape usually happens when someone uses narcotics to drug another into an unconscious state before engaging in sexual activity without their consent.
It is a pretty clear cut case when someone uses pharmaceutical drugs to incapacitate someone, but what about more benign substances such as everyd... |
This hypothetical case will be highly fact-specific and ultimately, only really answerable by the decision of a court as it will depend on the persuasiveness of arguments advanced by both sides. However, an attempt to address the question in terms of existing, known statutory and case law has been made.
## The defau... |
> If this case precedent later got overturned on appeal following many cases that the earlier verdict's precedent had enabled, can these posterous cases' rulings also be reversed?
In theory, yes. In reality, no. The system of precedent in England and Wales values stability on the principle of _stare decisis_. The re... |
## What offence was Bob fined for?
Bob likely committed the offence of entering a compulsory ticket area without a valid ticket contrary to clause 17(1) of the [Transport for London Railway Byelaws][1] which were made by Transport for London under paragraph 26 of Schedule 11 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 ... |
> If this case precedent later got overturned on appeal following many cases that the earlier verdict's precedent had enabled, can these posterous cases' rulings also be reversed?
In theory, yes. In reality, no. The system of precedent in England and Wales values stability on the principles of _stare decisis_ (decid... |
Is there a international law that decides a terrorist, and based on the acts committed in Ukraine, can Vladimir Putin be judged as a terrorist? |
Can Vladimir Putin be a terrorist? |
I've been studying various sexual-assault court filings recently and one thing that troubles me is the following:
**In sexual assault cases:**
an intoxicated person is said to be unable to give legal consent to intercourse.
**In other criminal cases:**
an intoxicated person cannot use drunkenness as a... |
How does the law reconcile being drunkeness in sexual-assault VS other crimes? |
I've been studying various sexual-assault court filings recently and one thing that troubles me is the following:
**In sexual assault cases:**
an intoxicated person is said to be unable to give legal consent to intercourse.
**In other criminal cases:**
an intoxicated person cannot use drunkenness as a... |
How drunk is too drunk? How does the law reconcile being drunkenness in sexual-assault VS other crimes? |
I will use [Washington law][1] to lay the landscape for a rape charge. First degree rape is sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion, either with kidnapping, (apparent) threat of a deadly weapon, beating the victim, or feloniously entering the building of vehicle where the victim is. This is not th... |
Is there a international law that decides who is a terrorist, and based on the acts committed in Ukraine, can Vladimir Putin be judged as a terrorist? |
Is President Putin a terrorist according to the definitions used in international law and treaties? |
The Supreme Court today rejected Donald Trump’s request that the High Court block House Democrats from viewing his tax returns. T[he order was brief, unsigned and noted no dissents.][1]
What is the significance of it being unsigned?
[1]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/112222zr_5i26.pdf |
Can I sell jewelry online that was inspired by an artist/song and reference the music on my product page? |
I often read about kidnapping charges being brought towards a single parent during divorce or when a teenager runs away from home with their respective boyfriends/girlfriends.
Does criminal law usually make accommodations to what a minor wants for themselves? Or do their opinions straight up don't matter until they ... |
Is it considered kidnapping if a teenager willingly runs away with someone else? |
Are third party subpoena's of large organizations allowed in civil litigation?
For example, if there is a lawsuit over a business deal, can one or more of the parties subpoena phone records such as emails and text messages from a phone company or an email provider? Also, what about internet service providers such as... |
What is the scope for third party subpoenas in civil litigation? |
If possible, try to invite, rather force.
>a guardian can be imposed.
Befoir ask yourself: what is needed to be solved? Who can enforce that? Why will he/she do it?
To avoid disappointment |
If possible, try to invite, rather force.
>a guardian can be imposed.
Prior, ask yourself: what is needed to be solved? Who can enforce that? Why will he/she do it?
Questions to avoid disappointment. |
Long story short, a realtor that sold me a house failed to disclose some significant structural defects that had been communicated to her. I'm not really sure if this realtor is working *for* Coldwell Banker, or if she's an independent agent working *with* Coldwell Banker.
So my question - *if* I were to pursue leg... |
When you sue a realtor, are you sueing the agent or the company? |
I am an American citizen located in the US. Suppose I wanted to hack Russian military infrastructure and disable it in order to aid Ukraine. Would this be legal? |
Would it be legal for an American to hack Russian military infrastructure to aid Ukraine? |
Is it legal for google street view images to see in my house (EU)? |
This is covered by a separate and less-severe criminal law, [unlawful harboring of a minor][1]. The basic element of the crime is
> if the person provides shelter to a minor without the consent of a
> parent of the minor and after the person knows that the minor is away
> from the home of the parent, without the p... |
How drunk is too drunk? How does the law reconcile being drunk in sexual-assault VS other crimes? |
We have a registration form where we create an account for an user where he needs to fill his first name and last name. When creating the account we also create a public profile behind the scene by reusing his last name and first name which he previously gave to create his account.
My question is: Is this legal in r... |
Is displaying the user first name and last name a breach of GDPR? |
An incident has occurred where an individual in a private business committed an offence (common assault/battery).
As expected the police seem fairly unmotivated or interested however a quick Google search reveals the persons highly active online, consistently promoting themselves in the light of 'positive behaviour'... |
Would it be illegal to forward CCTV footage of someone committing a crime to their employer? (UK) |
Has there ever been an attempt to standardize "Attempted Aggravated Assault" and "Attempted Murder"? |
GDPR is not a blanket ban on handling personal data. It regulates how to handle personal data, what permissions or justifications are required, and what happens when permissions are withdrawn.
- Data can be processed based on user consent, which can be withdrawn. Are you prepared to completely delete profiles in tha... |
Is it legal to request your relatives to burry you in your yard, if you don't want or you can't afford a grave at a public cemetery(and you don't want to be incinerated)? |
Is it legal to be buried in your yard? |
Names clearly are personal data and so a good question to ask for GDPR compliance is: Do you need to do what you want to do in order to offer your product or service?
For your scenario a common answer seems to be that websites ask for the users first and last name during account creation. The reason is that they nee... |
## Use of a graveyard is mandatory in [tag:Germany]
In Germany, there's 16 Bestattungsgesetze, literally burial laws, that regulate where you can legally put a grave and who has to pay for it in which order. The [Hamburg version dictates in §10][1] that corpses have to be buried and §11 dictates order of pay, §12 regu... |
[tag:united-states]
Once a body is cremated it is generally no longer subject to the laws related to dead bodies. But the disposition of a corpse that is not cremated varies greatly from one U.S. state to another.
The Washington College of Law has a website called the [State Burial Laws Project][1] that summarize... |
[tag:united-states]
Once a body is cremated it is generally no longer subject to the laws related to dead bodies. But the disposition of a corpse that is not cremated varies greatly from one U.S. state to another.
The Washington College of Law has a website called the [State Burial Laws Project][1] that summarize... |
I often read about kidnapping charges being brought towards a single parent during divorce or when a teenager runs away from home with their respective boyfriends/girlfriends.
Does criminal law usually make accommodations to what a minor wants for themselves? Or do their opinions straight up not matter until they tu... |
The Scottish Claim of Right makes clear that the people of Scotland are Sovereign, not Westminster.
However, under the rest of UK law, Westminster/Parliament is Sovereign.
Given the Supreme Court has ruled that the Scottish Parliament can't hold a referrendum on Scottish Independence without Westminster's permiss... |
Could Scotland Hold an Independence Referrendum Under The Claim of Right? |
When publishing an app in a store, such as Apple's App Store, you choose in which countries the app is available. See the [instructions on how to do that for the Google Play store](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/7550024?hl=en), for example.
Smartphone users have to set their base/home... |
Let's say I have an electronic product that is out of warranty. Now that the product is no more covered under warranty, shouldn't the respective company be responsible for providing services for repair at a cost?
To explain the situation here. I purchased product 'X' 2 years back(which had a 1-year warranty). Now th... |
[tag:colorado]
> why, in a locality where abortion is legal and not legally considered
> murder, could be compelled or forced abortion by a third party be
> considered murder?
This wouldn't be murder Colorado law, which is a locality where abortion is legal and not considered murder (unless the pregnant woman d... |
[tag:colorado]
> why, in a locality where abortion is legal and not legally considered
> murder, could be compelled or forced abortion by a third party be
> considered murder?
This wouldn't be murder Colorado law, which is a locality where abortion is legal and not considered murder (unless the pregnant woman d... |
[tag:colorado]
> why, in a locality where abortion is legal and not legally considered
> murder, could be compelled or forced abortion by a third party be
> considered murder?
This wouldn't be murder Colorado law, which is a locality where abortion is legal and not considered murder (unless the pregnant woman d... |
[tag:colorado]
> why, in a locality where abortion is legal and not legally considered
> murder, could be compelled or forced abortion by a third party be
> considered murder?
This wouldn't be murder Colorado law, which is a locality where abortion is legal and not considered murder (unless the pregnant woman d... |
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