Questions tagged [extortion]
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Is it illegal to threaten harm to yourself?
If Bob goes up to Alice with a knife and threatens to cut her, obviously that's illegal. But what if Bob points the knife at himself, and threatens to hurt/kill himself? Assuming he's subdued before ...
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Is Scamming Extortion in New York?
Welcome to the Internet, where people are the worst and want money for nothing:
Alice is a normal citizen of New York with an e-mail address. She receives an E-mail from Bob, a New York State Citizen, ...
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"Procurement" in The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 and its relation to extortion
the immoral traffic prevention act which deals with prostitution laws has some provisons specifically
Section 5 of the above Act states:
Procuring, inducing or taking person for the sake of ...
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What laws govern, empower, or limit indiscriminate accusatory TV Licensing mailings?
Anyone who has lived in the UK knows about postal TV license fee spam. These gaslighting, accusatory and threatening letters seem to verge on extortion, and are regularly received by households who do ...
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Are there no limits to damage waivers or would this go too far?
I am going to make vacation on Hawaii next week. For one day we booked a Ziplining tour.
Just after the free cancelation date passed, I was sent a waiver which is required to be signed to participate.
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Is it legal to force users to accept new terms of service by threatening financial loss?
Why isn't it illegal, (extortion or duress), to force users to accept new Terms of Service by threatening financial loss, (like denying access to purchased content, or inhibiting or prohibiting the ...
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Is saying you'll doing something illegal towards someone always a threat?
Followup to this question: Legality of "counter-blackmailing" with calling/reporting to the police
In it, an answerer provided two criteria for when blackmail is legal in the England and ...
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If a Politician uses an Organized Crime Syndicate to extort a Business, is the Politician guilty of the same crime as the Syndicate?
In the United States, let's say you have:
A generic POLITICIAN of any type
A generic ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE of any type
A generic BUSINESS of any type
If an ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE pressures a ...
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Withholding information about a problem as extortion - computer security research
Over at Security.StackExchange, a discussion broke out over the use of the term "extortion" in a situation where an anonymous security professional sent an email to a business to say that they found a ...
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Could the former publisher of the LA Times have been charged with extortion for using a damaging audio recording against his former employer?
Story here: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/675961765/tribune-tronc-and-beyond-a-slur-a-secret-payout-and-a-looming-sale
In summary, after being fired from the LAT, Davan Maharaj threatened to sue ...
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Large company intellectual property theft
Say a company stole intellectual property from an employee(accept this as fact pretend he understands the contracts he signed and that this was infact his IP) . This employee is now concerned since ...
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Threatening to discontinue a service for a client
Say someone advertises for their website and says "Its 100% free to sign up" then have them check a checkbox acknowledging that the owner of the site can cancel the service for any reason when they ...
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Copyright, privacy rights
I made the mistake of buying an essay online, due to having surgery and no time to write it. Now the website is trying to get more money from me threatening to call the university and the Board to ...
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Employer withholds last paycheck in Virginia
I signed my exit interview form that stated I gave back my property that I had from the company during my employ and that I was receiving my last paycheck. The employer only put the check number on my ...
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Is it extortion if someone says they're going to compete with someone in business?
Say someone mows lawns for a lawn care company they tell the owner they feel like they deserve a raise and if they don't get one they will quit and start their own competing lawn care company. Is that ...
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