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Repercussions from hitting protesters blocking highways

From “What power do I have as a driver if my interstate route is blocked by a protest?”, I understand that intentionally hitting protesters who block the road is considered “Vehicular Misdemeanour”. ...
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Treatment of lying/exaggerating witnesses

So I'm asking this in the setting of a criminal trial, but I'd also be interested to hear about the treatment of the same aspect in a civil trial. Assume Danny (D) finds himself accused of some ...
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Legality of stealing news

Say I read in the newspaper that a kangaroo shot a man on highway 45. If I put this information on my homepage, and don't copy the exact wording of the newspaper, this is probably ok and not a ...
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Rule Priority vs Rule Exception difference from legal perspective in driving rules

I am from non law background, but struggling to understand what types of rules will qualify as rule exception and what falls under rule priority. As if we go to rule book like California DMV or German ...
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How is the 'right to life' reconciled with the legal authority of military officers? (to issue orders that will cause deaths)

I'm not familiar with the academic or practical debates for this topic so I would like to ask it here. The closest related was this decision of the German supreme court regarding plane shootdowns: ...
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Does John Demjanjuk ruling theoretically jeopardize members of the US armed forces residing on German soil as parts of a "mass murder machine"?

Does this decision/ruling mean that an American soldier can not safely cross German soil due to universal jurisdiction? Practically speaking given the international political dynamics I don't suppose ...
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Difference between German citizenship and ability to obtain a passport? Would additional citizenships remove these German ones?

I am a US citizen born in the US to US citizen parents who also hold dual citizenship (of Colombia for one and of Germany for the other). I hold a US passport. As far as I can tell on the German ...
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How can a person declaring bankruptcy afford a lawyer?

In most jurisdictions, a person overwhelmed by debt can declare a personal bankruptcy (for example, filing for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the United States, or for a Verbraucherinsolvenz in Germany). ...
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legal to use screenshots/videos from games [duplicate]

I'd like to use screenshots from video games like Minecraft or Contraption Maker in presentations. Is this legal? My reasoning pro: I've seen screenshots from other software all over the place and ...
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Which countries' inheritance laws apply?

My mother, a German national with a green card passed away recently. Her husband (my dad) of 59 years is an American citizen (born in US). My mother spent the majority of her adult years in the United ...
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Are chess games copyrighted?

First and foremost, I've already done some research regarding my question - web pages including, but not limited to the following ones, weren't able to answer my question to it's full extent: https://...
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Voicemail recordings and transcription email fall under GDPR

A client calls, leaves a voicemail with his name and number. A vendor calls, leaves account information and address information. This call is also transcribed and sent via email. The above are ...
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Marriage between two brothers and related situations

Incest (for example between a brother and sister) seems to be illegal in most countries. The main (and only?) argument for that is that there is a high probability that the children might be ...
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Stand the Patriot act in the U.S.A. a the Enabling act in Nazi Germany on equal footing? [closed]

We all know that after 9/11 the Patriot Act (and new law) was constructed to give the U.S.A. more power in combating Islamic terrorists (the war on terror). After the fire in the Reichstag in Nazi ...
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Work permit for a US based space and defence company for EU citizen

I'm looking into writing my bachelor thesis at a aerospace company abroad. My question is if there are any special regulation regarding working for a aerospace company, with military contracts, as a ...
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