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by jimz 3y ago
Nope, the most competent defense lawyers are probably the federal defenders, who is backed by the resources of the feds, and have a much lighter case load, so they're able to actually spend the necessary time to mull over the minutia.
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by jimz 3y ago
Prosecutors are absolutely immune. Brady violations only invalidate the underlying case and in really egregious cases, ruin future careers in politics, but it doesn't create criminal liability going the other way. Police have qualified
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by jimz 3y ago
So uh, is the site onlyfans?
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by jimz 3y ago
No, not state's rights. Due process of law and non-delegation are what's being ignored, and in turn, situations where actual harm is being caused without any avenue of redress is commonplace, particularly post PATRIOT Act. This is
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by jimz 3y ago
In the American case, the interpretation of the CFAA under Van Buren (2021) would provide at least the defense that one does not violate the law if there is no meaningful authorization scheme in place to determine what constitutes "exc
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by jimz 3y ago
The key part is that it's a private company offering something that is opt-in. If the federal government mandated it, it's almost certainly a 10th Amendment violation (via commandeering). It would also effectively make the current
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by jimz 3y ago
Don't forget that he indirectly and in hindsight contributed to the independence of Peru as well. Most of the fighting of course did not happen on the seas, but just as air superiority matters a great deal, naval superiority in the 182
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by jimz 3y ago
I would like to be pedantic and mention that instead of outright bribery as we know today, the sort of coercion (in the broadest sense of the word) that enabled the rotten boroughs involved some far more innovative and long-term thinking li
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by jimz 3y ago
Wait, what? US as in the United States? That's simply not true. Even if we disregard that "legality in the US" is at best a moving target considering that federalism creates jurisdictional differences as a feature and therefo
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by jimz 3y ago
Or hell, even if it's not "fun" (since what is fun is ultimately subjective as well), as long as it is not harming anyone else, what is really the problem? I did a lot of psychedelics, I don't know if fun was ever the wo
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by jimz 3y ago
If only that was the bar exam. Now it's all UBE so what you end up with is 2/3 multiple choice questions that bear little relationship to actual law you'll be practicing, and 1/3 are answers to absurd hypotheticals that
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by jimz 3y ago
The ordinary client does not know how to properly evaluate the competency of an attorney anyway, DEI or not DEI. And no, the jingle is not correlated to performance either in motion or trial practice. Hell, Cellino and Barnes literally had
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by jimz 3y ago
You can work, but you can't get paid for said work unless it's during a school break. At least that was ABA rules around ten years ago, and followed assiduously by everyone from private practitioners to the federal government. Nob
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by jimz 3y ago
You forgot the quotes around "benevolent". It's "benevolent" to those who conform to what the state wishes to present as their archetype. Meanwhile, migrant workers are effectively indentured servants and prop up, m
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by jimz 3y ago
Companies are owned by people too. The idea that somehow the decision to engage in a consensual pooling of resources to organize an entity to conduct business somehow degrades a person is a wild take. In fact, the existence of companies as
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by jimz 3y ago
Which btw is a terrible analogy. The west even while there was a "frontier" had laws and in fact was subject to the actual US military attempting to actively subjugate Native Americans. Laws absolutely existed - even every western
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by jimz 3y ago
Yes, although there's nuance to that: If it's for something personal, then sure. It allows me to edit the code to fix small bugs or otherwise tweak it to my own needs. If it's for something that actually handles my money in a
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by jimz 3y ago
Eh, the article is extremely unclear as to what the context is surrounding the assertion since opening statements should be finished on the day after the jury is empaneled, and so "when it's their turn" could refer to either
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by jimz 3y ago
Federally, not since 1981. On the state level, some states do provide for a process that is recognizably analogous but still differ state to state, sometimes greatly. Also, states differ as to how direct a route a citizen-initiated complain
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by jimz 4y ago
Oh god, the NYC transit issue is like the largest rancid lasagna of projects - multi-layered, affects tons of people, and so deeply entrenched across legal and technical aspects alike. I've literally lived in an unrecognized breakaway
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by jimz 4y ago
There's a lot of incorrect data floating around, but then again, that's not really a problem limited to Experian (I've seen it with all credit reporting agencies), and it's not even limited to private entities. I would e
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by jimz 4y ago
For the most part, if you can make money for other people, you can use that skill set for yourself. Also, if you're somewhere where it's legal or at least accessible, it's not actually 100% true that at a casino the house alw
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by jimz 4y ago
It's not really a legal grey area, congress deliberately writes vague laws so that administrative agencies can interpret and fill in gaps during their rulemaking process, which would then receive deference from courts if challenged and
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by jimz 4y ago
India claims sovereignty over the Andaman Islands including the Sentinel Islands. Just because the islanders don't know/refuse to engage with the state doesn't stop the state from asserting their claim. Although, there are en
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by jimz 4y ago
There are no clean hands here. Binance does sketchy things that screw over their customers. FTX apparently does too (although anyone else have their referral income dry up suddenly in July-ish?). This happens because it's blatantly cle
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by jimz 4y ago
Or lobbying
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by jimz 4y ago
(well, that and if it's legally binding, it's a matter of performance or damages)
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by jimz 4y ago
I do the same in Las Vegas, "sin city" moniker and all. I lived in Boston, NYC, LA, Montreal, and Spokane. I had two bikes stolen while I was working at the county public defender's and my girlfriend called the police, filed
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by jimz 4y ago
This is likely still lower than a lot lot lot lot lot of jurisdictions where prosecutors and cops don't even make any sort of effort at theft cases until the facts of the case allows for a more serious charge to stick and the theft is
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by jimz 4y ago
Considering that two years ago the Supreme Court ended up having to hold that the use of the indefinite article "a" in the phrase "a notice to appear" means a singular document that fits the definition of said notice ins

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