Questions tagged [covid-19]
For questions about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on laws and other regulations, legal process and proceedings, and legality of action. Consider adding a location tag if the question is specific to a particular jurisdiction.
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Are Ontario municipalities allowed to stop issuing marriage licenses during COVID-19?
Some Ontario cities, such as Waterloo say on their website:
"Due to COVID-19, marriage licences will be suspended until further notice."
Here is a screenshot, in case the website changes.
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Can Rand Paul be sued for negligent transmission of COVID-19?
Note: I am not wanting to make this political. Please do not attempt to address political aspects of this situation or rail one way or the other. My question would be exactly the same if the facts ...
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Can someone face legal consequences for infecting someone else with COVID due to not following COVID regulations?
Jurisdiction is Belgium.
Suppose a college student goes to an illegal student party and catches COVID there. He doesn't get caught by the police, he has no symptoms and he then doesn't self-isolate ...
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Are businesses required to let all shareholders attend their offline shareholder meetings?
Cover Corporation is a Japanese media company managing content creators which is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as of March 27, 2023. They held a shareholder meeting at June 29th, 2023. It was ...
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In the US, have there been any successful lawsuits over COVID infection liability?
Its often been claimed during the pandemic that some businesses voluntarily mandate masks because they fear losing a lawsuit if an employee or customer gets infected on their premises. Since March ...
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In the US, what has been the general outcome of COVID-19 vaccine-mandate litigation?
Recently, a friend informed me that he knew someone who had won a lawsuit, with a large award for damages, against his employer, which I believe was a private company, because he was dismissed for not ...
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Legal basis for remaining face mask mandate in the NHS, UK
In the UK, all legal mask mandates have been dropped. However from what I understand, they are still required “in healthcare settings”. This could be in a hospital, doctor’s surgery or a pharmacy.
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In the US, can a person openly refuse to obey regulations that have been ruled to be against the law?
As an example, some school districts in Texas are openly disobeying the ban on mandatory masking in schools, which was recently confirmed to be legal by a Federal appellate court. So we have a ...
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At what point does a bunch of ingredients become a medicine?
In most if not all countries it is illegal to sell unlicensed medicines and medical treatments. It is however legal to sell the reagents, equipment and instructions to individuals for them to create ...
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Are interstate and interdistrict travel restrictions legal?
This is an excerpt from the latest unlockdown (Unlock 2.0) guidelines from the Ministry of Home Affairs,
States/UTs, based on their assessment of the situation, may prohibit certain activities ...
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Pictures of people breaking the law in Facebook
Within this COVID19 pandemic various activities were forbidden in Portugal, like spearfishing or catching crabs in rocks. Yet, some people insist on doing them (let's call them rebels) but in a "...
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I’m being asked to come back into work despite government guideline to stay at home- What are my rights?
I work in an administrative role at the NHS.
Since the lock down measures started in the UK, I have been working from home.
As demand on the NHS has been increasing substantially, management asked ...
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Criminal transmission of COVID-19? Knowingly exposing vulnerable individuals
This is a related question. The difference here is that the other question is asking about criminal negligence; someone doing something without considering the harm it may cause. My question is about ...
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Updated: (Oct 2. 2022) Is it possible to enter Canada unvaccinated?
This is an update to this question I asked some weeks ago. From what I read in the news Canada has changed its border requirnments. Is it now possible to leave and enter Canada unvaccinated?
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School Online Lessons
I go to a private school but I am funded by the council and I had covid a few weeks ago and they refused to give online lesson because "that is not what we do" is that true? Also to note is ...
