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When is a letter "mailed or delivered"?
I am a PA resident and purchased the services of a career service company based in FL for 5k. The payments were deferred for the first month, so I have neither made any payments nor received any ...
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Can Mobile App Terms of Use contain General liability release?
The intent is a smart phone based app, which functions as a service(think ride share type of services). Wish to provide said service without insurance to test market feasibility.
Definition(s): '...
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In what circumstances can a missing person be replaced in business deals?
Suppose there's two people who found a startup company as associates in the USA. In case one goes temporarily missing, is it possible for the other to take over decisions for both of them (e.g. agree ...
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Can I lien a public building in the U.S. or how to collect on a judgment against a public entity?
I have a signed contract and performed the work, but the public entity refuses to pay the invoice. My contract stipulates an interest rate for non-payment, which I have been adding to each invoice (...
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Client wants me to sign a contract after 1 year of working together, cites US tax laws as the reason
I'm a software developer freelancer, I have a client I have been working with for a while now (a year on the last projects, but many years before as employer-employee) which recently cited tax-law ...
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How do you get permission to use a copyright before the copyright holder has obtained their certificate from the government?
I'm in a musical, and I am helping the lyricist and composers to obtain their individual copyrights. The official certificate will not arrive for around nine months.
I'm also recording and producing ...
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Does a no-refunds policy trump being sent the wrong item?
Say I order a product online from an American company with a strict no-refunds policy. The item is, for example, a blue t-shirt. What I receive in the mail is a home tie-dyed t-shirt, with additional ...
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Contract alteration, what prevents it?
What's to stop counterparties to a contract from later marking up their copy with changes and forging initials, or swapping signature pages from one contract to another?
Context here is executing ...
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What law requires payment of a termination fee as outlined in a contract?
My employer canceled on me (I am a contract worker) and didn't pay the termination fee we discussed. I want to show him the actual law so that he may understand that he should pay me because I have a ...
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Is other party by law required to give you a copy of contract, if you don't have one, but he does?
I am helping a friend who has signed some documents for her business with a Credit Card Processor company. However, at the time of signing up for this service she forgot to ask for a copy of all ...
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No written contract. Do I have to pay undisclosed early termination fee?
A credit card payment processing company agent approached my business and offered to try out their service for free for a month as a trial.
However, I decided not to use it after this one month trial,...
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Can I protect myself against misused funds if i invest in a self employed person's project?
If I invest a sum of money to a self employed individual for their project can I sue them for the return of the investment if they meet the following general points:
can't or won't show me what they'...
