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lifts cats over head posted:To anyone's knowledge is there a law relating to rent payments being reported to credit bureaus? The rational to this is that people often pay rent consistently for years but it may not reflect on their credit the way a mortgage would. I've done some research and it seems landlords can report this if they want but it's not mandatory and a person isn't able to report their own consistent rent payments. I'm sure this varies by state. If no such law exists I'm seriously considering contacting my state representative. The difference is that you're borrowing money for the mortgage, so it shows that you're good at paying back the credit extended. Rent is just a monthly bill for something you're leasing. It's not a bad idea but it's like requesting that the electric company also show that you pay your bills on time.
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What happens if the plaintiff or defendant is themselves a lawyer
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Alchenar posted:then they have a fool for a client When do they not though? 
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Oct 7, 2019 23:26
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Arcturas posted:That must be a really state-specific difference, then. I think in most states premiums are effectively tied to claims - there was a This American Life about California premiums and fraudulent claims putting employers out of business, and some random jerk in this article from eight years ago says that a claim will raise the employer's premiums by $4,000 to $7,000 over the next three years. Since that's about what a paid-out claim will pay... If that's what a paid out claim will pay they should self insure since they're still on the hook for the full amount plus the monthly premium
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Oct 23, 2019 00:38
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"I'm not guilty but I'm not stupid"
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Nov 23, 2019 00:24
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Devor posted:People with full on bankruptcies can get clearances depending on the circumstances. Was going to post the clearance appeals site too. They're only looking for evidence that you can be blackmailed, a billing fuckup is unlikely to do that especially if you have evidence of savings etc
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Nov 27, 2019 16:29
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Leviathan Song posted:IANAL but this is terrible advice. Some of the people you see in those adjudications have spent months or even years out of work while that process works it's way through the system. Even if you succeed at adjudication, it can absolutely be a career ender because you miss key promotion timelines or duties. Do what you can to keep your credit squeaky clean. Ok, that's a reasonable point. Advice retracted!
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You got legal advice, it was "Don't make a public post on a comedy web forums that could be used against you if there's a legal action, get an actual lawyer dummy"
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TheParadigm posted:I understand that us contract law always gives you an opportunity to cross out things in a contract you don't agree with by making counter offers. You can always take a sharpie and void things you don't agree with. This is every major tech company, if you don't strike this provision you have to petition them to work on your own open source projects. It sucks and it's just the state of the industry in hell world. quote:Can you insist all paperwork be printed and sign in person? You don't work there, then. They're free to offer terms, you're free to say no or counter offer, they're free to decline or accept counter offers. If you can't get a better hiring discussion than "well that's the online portal, I can't really change that" then they don't think that you're important enough to bother negotiating with. It's a take it or leave it offer at that point.
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Outrail posted:If it's a simple court appearance you should be able to skype or FaceTime in with an approved app. Sure, you can use the state of the art video conferencing software the court installed, if you're rich enough for a computer that will do it, you just need Macromedia Flash, Internet Explorer 6, and Windows 98 or better. Netscape is not supported, and your monitor must be 800x600. Sorry, 1024x768 is NOT supported, and the court system cannot provide any technical support. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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bird with big dick posted:Wait a minute, are you a lawyer? If you're a lawyer you have to say yes, it's the law
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Dec 18, 2019 23:12
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You're paying them in warm fuzzies though, it's still a transaction.
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Dec 19, 2019 17:52
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Alchenar posted:No you can't retrospectively disinherit your son if he marries a black woman/man. I think they meant a medical advance directive. Could you disinherit if you have a directive of "do anything possible" and the person says "nope, pull the plug" or vice versa ("enjoy your misery you awful old bat!")
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Javid posted:
Without saying more, you should watch The Boys
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"Your car sucks" is not a protected class unfortunately. It's likely this could be enforced on the idea of needing to present a certain look to clients.
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Ancillary Character posted:What about mentioning the concept of jury nullification? Isn't that a surefire way to not get picked? Phil Moscowitz posted:There’s also a chance this strategy will land you in jail for contempt for the night so it’s only for the true gamblers out there.
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Devor posted:I got called to potentially be on a Grand Jury in Baltimore, where you're apparently on the hook every day for several months. I was on a grand jury a few months ago. I feel like you could replace most of the jurors with a bunch of cardboard cutouts labeled "I motion, I second, in favor" in crayon and it would have had about the same result. I now understand the "A competent federal prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich" quip. What's the ostensible purpose of the preemptory strike? Given that Batson only happened in the mid 80s, it feels like a way to just ensure the result you want than to eliminate bias.
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BonerGhost posted:You lawyer types probably already know this but Kim Kardashian is studying for the California bar and of course a cottage industry has popped up around her. This is the best thing I've seen in the last 2 weeks. "Practice questions" is a weird way to write "Product placement" though. quote:A celebrity loved her KKW SOOO FIRE promotional box. She kept it on her kitchen counter. One day, her boyfriend, who recently moved into the celebrity’s house, decided to start a fire in the grill. He poured lighter fluid all over the coals in the grill. He lit the match on the KKW SOOO FIRE promotional box. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing in the direction of the home and it lit the celebrity’s house on fire. Fire crews were able to stop the fire. A small portion of the house was damaged. Tag yourselves, I'm the "ha ha whoops what a crazy accident" alibi for insurance fraud
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Arcturas posted:- Most prosecutors don't charge cases where there is "weak evidence." They have way too many cases sitting in the screening pile with good evidence to waste their time on cases with weak evidence. Could they charge those, or over-charge in the interests of getting a plea deal? Sure. But what's the incentive? In the analogy with the mugger, the mugger gets your wallet. What does the prosecutor get out of it? They can just dismiss the case or tell the cop to get better evidence. Sometimes they have numbers they're expected to hit, but the on-the-ground reality is that they can almost always hit those targets by resolving other cases instead of picking up lovely cases. (Disclaimer about this varying drastically by jurisdiction and state.) These two feel feel contradictory. The prosecutor's office has too many cases sitting around to waste their time on weak evidence cases, but without plea bargaining they'd charge all of those cases instead of declining to prosecute?
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Arcturas posted:No, I think my point is that without plea bargaining prosecutors will charge just the same thing they're currently charging. If you think that prosecutors currently charge weak evidence cases to get plea bargain leverage, there's no real reason to think that prosecutors won't charge weak evidence cases on the off chance a jury decides to believe the evidence or hate the defendant and convict regardless of the strength of the evidence. My point is this: Let's say that the prosecutor's office has 100 cases (which aren't immediately dropped for lack of evidence). 50 are slam dunks, 40 are iffy, 10 are unlikely to reach a conviction (emotional arguments, etc) I'm a prosecutor running on a "tough on crime" platform so I want to have as many convictions as possible. I charge all 100 cases, knowing that on average, 45 of the slam dunks will plead out, 30 of the iffy cases will, and 5 of the lost causes will. I have to bring 15 cases of trial, and my workload planning and budget reflects this (insofar as I can stretch it) Now, due to legal changes, you don't get to arrange pleas before trial begins. Defenders will advise clients to plead guilty for sentencing leniency depending on the evidence, but you're on the "nut up or shut up" path for legal options. No overcharging for negotiations, if you're going to charge it you have to see it through. Let's say that 45 of the slam dunks will still plead guilty. You've still got the same workload but now you've still got to take those 5 cases to trial already. Meanwhile, the other 50 defendants are still being threatened by those charges, but you have to decide whether to go for some lesser charges you're likely to convict, or the high charges that are a maybe. So, do you still charge all of those 40 iffy cases, or just a subset? Do you still charge those other 10 "unlikely to to convict" cases at all? What happens to the plead ratio when the worst case of a not guilty conviction changes from 25 years, to 2? Even in the case where you would still have the same conviction rate with lower penalties, you no longer have people going to prison for 25 years on something they maybe did, which seems much more equitable.
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Devor posted:In the hypothetical "don't gently caress with the accused in order to make the court's life easier" this practice would go out the window too. Give some credit for acceptance of guilt, but let them acknowledge it at the end of the trial where the prosecutor made his case. I'm suggesting that the leniency gets factored in from contrition during sentencing
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It sounds like the crucial thing here is if the prosecution says "we'll have give you probation if you just plead guilty" and you say "no", the prosecution can't go "alright then, see you on trial for distribution of heroin and 10 years of prison then", is that correct?Leperflesh posted:This is a totally different tangent but IMO the defendant's contrition - or rather, the magic ability that judges think they have to see into the minds of defendants and determine their level of contrition, which ample evidence shows is somehow also highly correlated to the darkness of their skin - should have zero bearing on sentencing. Very good points.
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DaveSauce posted:I know you're over in europe-land, but it amuses me to imagine someone addressing a judge as, "my lord" in a US court. Come plead, m'lord
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Nice piece of fish posted:You do NOT want to be accused of murder in Norway. Actually this sounds like the best place to be accused of murder. Have you seen your jails?
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Nice piece of fish posted:
The joke I was making was that this sounds significantly better in every respect than being accused of murder over here, especially if you're not wealthy and or not white.
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Nice piece of fish posted:
In some places, if you're falsely convicted, and later found to be innocent, you can apply for compensation. You don't get anything for time spent in jail awaiting/on trial as I understand, and you're always out the money you spent on a lawyer if you could afford that. In some places, if you are released on probation or parole, you must pay the costs for ankle monitoring. poo poo's regressive. State by state breakdown (dramatically more than I expected tbqh!): https://www.innocenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Key-Provisions-in-Wrongful-Conviction-Compensation-Laws.docx As a reminder, there are 50 states in the US. If you're nationally scandalized by a murder, don't search "Mississippi prison murders"
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Badger of Basra posted:~hypothetical~ Depends on whether the FEC has started becoming functional again.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Posted in a Facebook group in my town, for a rental agreement: Better yet, is this actually enforceable?
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pseudanonymous posted:I don’t know how much do these seem worth? Depends, does he imply that he does it the way his grandfather did it "in the old country" or some other trust fund hipster-bait? E: owlhawk911 posted:and post *your* workstation as exhibit b This too. As it is, don't cheat and clean it up then take the picture. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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joat mon posted:Do you have (artisanal) spoons in your house? 
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pseudanonymous posted:I’m happy to post my workstation Do it coward. Also, what do you mean by boiling spoons? He just sets a pot of water, throws the spoons in there, turns the heat on, and comes back later?
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Kudos for bowing to peer pressure!
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pseudanonymous posted:Well frankly <bad stuff> Either remove this immediately as an incredibly dumb own goal should you ever need to litigate about this, or go all in and post the manifesto. Edit: that was last page, whoops. Please just post the manifesto now.
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seiferguy posted:This is a weird question but I got like 6 calls from an inmate in a jail. I don't know the person but I caught his name on the "will you accept a call from x" and found his info. I'm worried he's trying to get help but is reaching out to the wrong person. Is there a particular thing I should do? Accept the call, let him know it's the wrong number? It costs a painfully large amount of money to make calls from prison so you'd be doing him a solid letting him know quickly.
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seiferguy posted:The one hes calling from is collect, so I'd take on the charges, hence why I'm not answering them. Oh, missed that it was collect, sorry.
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Is the red pen you, or was it there
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Devor posted:Then put all the grandmas and grandpas in the prisons Advanced boomercide ideas here
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TheKevman posted:It's really unfortunate that they did that because they didn't need to. The rest of the ad was fire but that moment really kneecaps it pretty good. They'll say that regardless of what you use, though.
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Starpluck posted:
Musk announces that autonomous driving is unfortunately but inevitably delayed after it turns out that a skunk walking next to the road causes fatal accidents, along with anything else they didn't put in an `if` case for. Fortunately, he makes a joke about how he didn't have "2020 vision" and the stock market heartily guffaws while tousling his hair and saying "that's our Elon!"
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The defense would be that you weren't impaired by the alcohol because the ai was doing it all anyway. Realistically though such a case would rarely come to trial because DUI stops happen when either the driver is doing something an AI wouldn't do, like driving erratically or speeding, or there's a major wreck, which an ai makes less likely anyway. Or there's a DUI checkpoint and the window doesn't roll down.
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