1,680 articles on "legal"

How Deep Do Criminal Record Checks Go?

Everyone in this country has rights. You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to freedom of speech and religion. You have the right to refuse medication. You have the right to food and shelter. However, sometimes other people have the ...

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Debtor Examinations And Third Parties

Debtor Examinations and Third Parties: Understanding Your Legal Rights When a debtor fails to pay back a debt, the creditor has the legal right to initiate a debtor examination. This is a legal process by which the creditor can compel the debtor to ...

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How to Talk to the Police if Your Suspected of a Crime

How to Talk to the Police if Your Suspected of a Crime by: Susan Chana Lask, Esq. If you’re suspected of a crime, the police can come to your house or work or find you on the street to talk to you. Usually it will be a detective in plain cloth...

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Lawsuit Anatomy

Lawsuit Anatomy by: Frederick Graves, Esq. Anatomy of a Lawsuit Learning the anatomy of civil lawsuits is as easy as spelling "CAT". Complaint - Answer - Trial It's as simple as that! Master this simple truth and you will soon be operating ...

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Dishonest Litigants and Tainted Evidence

One of the consequences of the UK adversarial legal system is that parties are expected and encouraged to pursue their case as forcefully as is possible. There can be occasions however when either a claimant or defendant will overstep the boundary an...

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What qualifies as wrongful death litigation

In many cases, victims are usually unable to file a lawsuit themselves, especially when that person is already deceased or suffered huge injuries. In a wrongful death case, personal representatives of the estate of a deceased person are allowed to fi...

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Boating Accident Law - Will a Limitation of Liability Action Sink Your Boat Accident Case?

Maritime law is the law of the sea. Maritime law is very, very different from California State law. One of the peculiar parts of maritime law is the Limitation of Liability Act. Under the Limitation of Liability Act, if certain factual prerequisites ...

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What is a Structured Settlement

A structured settlement refers to a type of payment arrangement that is typically used as a means of settling legal disputes. It involves a series of periodic payments over a predetermined period rather than a lump sum payment. Consequently, a struct...

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Extension of Requirement for Biometric Passport Issuance.

The requirement for Visa Waiver travelers to have biometrics included in their passports has been extended for one year, to October 26, 2005. All newly issued passports must be biometrically enabled by this time. The extension was necessary to avoid ...

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Doctor To Pay $2,500,000 To Family Of Woman Who Died Of Metastatic Colon Cancer Caused By Diagnosis Delay

Less than 1% of those diagnosed with colon cancer are younger than thirty-five. But, because of the fact that colon cancer can be fatal physicians generally concur that rectal bleeding, even in an individual below thirty-five, needs to be followed by...

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