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Can a nation A stop nation B from issuing visas to citizens of nation A?
How would it legally work?
For example, could India force U.S. consulates to stop issuing H-1B visas, or other specialized visas, by claiming it amounts to poaching of important human resources?
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Is the worst version of the accusations against President Trump impeachable?
Suppose the president of the US demands foreign leader X have X's state conduct an investigation into corrupt dealings of a family member of a former member of the previous US administration (and a ...
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Airport Security - advanced check, 4th amendment breach
I am a traveller, have a long Muslim name and I encounter frequent advanced searches at airports. Searching someone based solely on their name is obviously illegal as per the 4th amendment, but I ...
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Could the President, Senate, and a foreign country circumvent the House to pass a law?
If the Senate and President wanted to pass a law, but the House of Representatives voted against it, could the President and Senate pass it by including it in a treaty with a foreign country (assuming ...
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Are works created by US government employees in the performance of their duties treated as public domain outside the US?
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred ...
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Are these unsolicited seed packages illegal?
I recently came across an article with the headline "Some mystery seeds illegally sent from China identified." It struck me as odd because obviously sending unsolicited junk mail isn't ...
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What are the formal requirements to cite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in U.S. courts?
I understand that there has been no attempt to broaden protections subject to civil rights in the U.S. on the grounds of human rights so there is likely no example for such a reference, but U.S. ...
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How is a person residing abroad subject to US law?
I am reading this press release of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.
The attorney states that:
Mason Sheppard, aka “Chaewon,” 19, of Bognor Regis, in the United ...
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Was the Dec. 2018 arrest of Huawei's CFO in Canada legal?
Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of the Chinese company Huawei was recently arrested in Canada, and is facing extradition to the US, allegedly on charges of breaking violating U.S. sanctions on Iran.
The thing ...
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Is it illegal to give false information about a person to a foreign-based telemarketer?
I have always wondered if there is anything illegal with an American citizen giving false information about another American citizen to a foreign-based telemarketer, such as someone who by their ...
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Does the federal government of USA have any powers over functioning of ICANN
Since the very inception of the internet, as we know it today, USA had a pivotal role to play including in the management of DNS (Domain Name System). However internet evolved to be more free.
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In USA, does private property go right up to the international border?
I was out hunting with a friend yesterday, and the land we were on borders Montana. We were keeping on the North side of the barb-wire fence we assumed was the border, but then we found one of the ...
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Will a Muslim with multiple wives who travels to the U.S. be charged with polygamy?
If you are a Muslim with multiple wives, and you travel to the U.S., will you be charged with polygamy?
What if you are also a U.S. citizen?
(I'm just curious how this works for people from Saudi ...
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Do I need to present a GDPR banner to IP addresses outside of GDPR regions?
The context of my question comes from this comment:
The problem with solving GDPR compliance with country codes is, it is not in general sufficient to determine if a user is covered by the GDPR. The ...
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Can I steal Elon's Tesla?
My question is pretty simple: if I somehow retrieved the Tesla sent into orbit by SpaceX earlier this week, could I keep it? Why or why not?
I'm specifically wondering if there are any laws ...
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