Title: [WA,IL] Pre-paid for a rental car. Company didn't have a car to give, and is now unresponsive.

Question:
On December 13th in Seattle, WA, I pre-paid in full for a rental car online, booked through the rental company's website. I received a confirmation email, and my credit card was charged the cost of the rental (~$240).

Upon arriving at O'Hare airport in Chicago, IL on December 25th (the day of the reservation), I called the company to ask where the shuttle was located, and the representative on the phone told me that there were no cars available. I told them that I had pre-paid for my reservation, but he said they couldn't help me - all their cars were gone.

Nine hours *after* my initial reservation was supposed to have started, I received an email saying that my reservation had been cancelled.

Eventually I was able to find another rental company that had cars, but the total for the new car ended up being ~$500. While this may not seem like a tremendous cost difference, I am working in academia and paying off student loans, so an extra $260 that I didn't budget for is more than I can comfortably absorb right now. On top of that, I've checked my credit card, and the initial pre-paid reservation cost has not been refunded.

I've contacted the rental company to ask them to refund my payment, and to see if they will cover the cost difference of the more expensive rental. I haven't gotten a response yet.

My question is: what options do I have to recoup my costs? My guess is that working with a lawyer is going to be far too costly for me, and I'm not even sure whether I have a case. Any advice you have will be greatly appreciated.

Answer:
 You can file a chargeback on your credit card pretty easily in order to get your money back.

As far as getting them to pay for the difference in cost, I don't think they're going to do that and they aren't legally obligated to do so.


Title: How do I go about finding a friend who may be lost in a foreign country's asylum/immigration system?

Question:
After the fall of the Gaddafi regime, he was exposed to a ridiculous amount of danger and had to basically relocate and keep a low profile due to the fact that many people would kill him for apostasy, so he kind of had to live under the radar a lot.

Thanks to those circumstances, him and a lot of his online friends that he made kept tabs on him and wishing him the best, helping him here and there.

He made plans to relocate to a South American country after raising the funds necessary and getting the proper papers, only for him to get stuck in Cyprus by being denied access to the next plane. Thus, the last post we have from him is that he was applying for asylum there.

Is there any way that anybody may it be here in the USA, in Europe, or in Cyprus to be able to check their system to see if he has either been locked up, they are still processing his asylum request, or at least find out that he hasn't died, or at least give the government officials processing his request a way to reach out to people that know him? Understandably, everyone is out of their depth here.

Many of his friends are worried sick, nobody has heard anything, and we are feeling scared and hopeless for him. Any help is welcome.

Answer:
 This is a standard example of a question that cannot be answered here.

How would you know who to trust with your friend's information? Anybody here MAY be an agent of the regime.

Nobody can help you with such matters on an open internet forum.


Title: [US, MA] I successfully received my security deposit back from Landlord

Question:
So I am not actually seeking advice, because the situation is resolved, but I figured this would be of interest to the members of this sub, and also might help someone in a similar situation. Mods, sorry if this is not allowed, but I didn't see anything in the rules specifically saying I couldn't (meta, huh?)

My husband and I moved from Boston to a smaller city in MA a little over 3 years ago. We had recently graduated college and were happy to get out of the slummy apartments in Boston and into a "Luxury Apartment and Condo" complex in our new city.

We lived there for 3 years (just moved in April, though our lease went through May, and yes we continued to pay rent even though we weren't living there, we just got sick of the commute and the quality of life convinced us to suck it up when we found a nicer apartment with a much better commute). Overall the complex was not horrible, it definitely was faux "luxury" and the cheap carpets and linoleum they had started to fray/peel up at the edges. The good part about having a 2 month overlap is we cleaned the fuck out of that old apartment.

The security deposit was rather low for the rent. We only paid $250 as a security deposit for a 1br that was ~1700/mo. I didn't think much of it at the time but looking back it seems as if they charge such a low deposit with the intent on withholding it from everyone thinking people won't fight for such a small amount. Admittedly, I probably would not have either, if they hadn't also tried to charge me an additional $500 on top of it.

So we move out and go to hand in the keys. Upon handing in the keys they said we had not paid for the last month. This was entirely our bad, every other apartment we had leased we paid first/last/security upon move in. After 3 years we had forgotten this place didn't require last, and upon being made aware of this, my husband immediately got our checkbook out and wrote a check for the last month (on the 31st). Being tenants for 36months we had never ever been late on rent. This was an honest mistake on our part. We did find it odd that we got notices and phone calls for everything under the sun (from packages, to other minor reminders) and yet they had never attempted to contact us when we failed to pay rent on the first.  The way the days fall the last day of our lease is a Sunday and no one is available to do a walk through so my husband drives back on that monday to do it. Everything seems fine according to the agent and we go on our way.

Then in June we get a letter from the management company. Not only are they withholding our entire deposit, but we "owe" them $500 on top. The charges were for (1) Late Fee due to Unpaid May Rent (2) Legal Fee Due to unpaid may rent (3) Final water bill and (4) Carpet replacement due to pet urine smell.

Now our lease said nothing about a "legal fee" being charged due to late rent, and in fact by the terms of our lease, although we paid it 30 days "late", we wouldn't incur any fees because it was just on the cusp of when they would charge fees.

The water bill we did not dispute but the carpet we did. Our cat was and is fully litter trained, and the litterbox was housed in a separate room, far from any carpeted area. He never once peed on the carpet. After speaking with some other former tenants it seems as if this company always finds an excuse to charge the former tenant to replace the carpet.

I, naively, called the management office and spoke with the woman in charge regarding these charges and how I thought they were unfair and what could we do to resolve this issue. She was rude, and combative, and called me a liar. I told her I was going to dispute this bill and she said "If you want to retain legal counsel and waste that money go ahead, everything is in your lease".

Them's fightin' words. I actually have quite a few friends who are lawyers and discussed these issues with them and they looked over my lease. One of my friends helped me draft up a letter to send to them (certified mail), in an attempt to if not get my money back, at least avoid having to pay the additional $500.

According to my friend the rent issues were clear cut, and the management company was in the wrong. The carpet was going to be a harder sell, but it was worth a shot.

I sent the letter and a little over a week later I received a call from their regional office. They apologized, admitted the fees due to the rent were unlawful charges and said that a check would be in the mail for my full security deposit (less the final undisputed water bill).  This call happened to be on my birthday and it was the best present ever.

TL;DR Management company (who seems to do this to everyone), tried to withhold my security deposit and charge me more on top of it for things that went against the terms of our lease agreement. I "lawyered" up, sent a scary letter, and got my money back

[Here is the letter I sent, minus Identifying Information](http://postimg.org/image/s1gmzm0t3/)
[Sorry that its not imgur, it kept getting an error when I tried uploading](http://postimg.org/image/s06p66yzb)
Topic:
Landlord Tenant Housing

Answer:
 Congrats for winning one, it's refreshing for this sub.

It's honestly disgusting that companies take advantage of people like that, especially considering many tenants don't have the legal know-how or friends that can defend themselves.


Title: [CA] mechanic using my moms car that was supposedly a total loss already caused in accident and ticket violation

Question:
I don’t know what to do but I’m trying to help my mom with her problem right now she was in accident that made her car a total loss. So she did not have possession of the vehicle for more then 2 month now since the mechanic she was recommended to also recommended her a lawyer and the mechanic told her that the car would be in his care until the case is over. But after 2 months pass by my mom gets a phone call from her car insurance saying that there was in accident in April 1. The  car that was supposedly a total loss caused in accident and they used my mom car insurance information and a third party name was reported to be the one that caused the accident. My mom already told her insurance about the situation and they said they will do in investigation but no response for them for more then a week now. My mom also went to the police station to report it but was told to report it at the Bureau of Automotive Repair. We already submitted the report but today we got a mail for a ticket violation that they also did in march 30th  and when she contacted the mechanic he was being insulting and was aggressive towards her in the phone and then he hung up. The lawyer also contacted him to tell him whats going on but he was also aggressive towards him. At this point we don’t know what to do from here since the lawyer can’t do anything but said that we should report it to the dmv and the mechanic is also charging us daily space charges for the vehicle being at his place
Topic:
Consumer Law

Answer: From what you say, there's nothing more to do than report to the BAR and wait for the attorney to let you know the next step in the process. Any of the mechanic's unreasonable fees will be deemed invalid by the automotive bureau, and ultimately a lawsuit will settle any debts owed. Your attorney is far more prepared to advise you than we could be.


Title: My landlord is evicting me and I believe it is retaliatory.

Question:
At the beginning of February, after several months of trying to get my landlord to fix a cockroach infestation across the entire apartment complex and them doing absolutely nothing about it, I reported them to the local city housing counsel for violating our city tenant rights. Since then, they have removed my ability to pay my rent online via the app (making me pay by a cashier's check or money order delivered directly to their leasing office,) ignored all my maintenance request and marking them immediately as "finished", along with prolonging my new roommate's paperwork. The roommate's paperwork wasn't too big of a deal, since he was added as an "authorized occupant", but the problem started about two weeks ago.

On March 27th I recieved a note on my door saying I was to leave the premises within 30 days because I violated the lease agreement by having an "unauthorized occupant". This made no sense, so I checked online again, and sure enough my new roommate was still marked as an authorized occupant. I emailed my leasing office (since they were closed) asking them what the letter was about. They avoided the question and told me they were processing my roommate's paperwork, but they needed to know if we were renewing our lease. We told them that we were not going to renew our lease, signed the proper paperwork stating we were vacating at the end of the lease, and sent it back in.

The next day they email me saying that they ran us through the system and they would require another two months deposit (roughly $2000) in order to add my new roommate. I thought that was ridiculous, since we only have three more months on our lease, but I didn't want to make it anymore complicated than it already was so I didn't bother arguing. I didn't have two thousand sitting around, so I asked my roommate, and he said he has the money available right now. I email the leasing office back and tell them we have the money available right now. No response.

The next day I get [this](https://imgur.com/jhQDF6n) email, pretty much stating that they won't accept the new security deposit and that our only option is to leave. I firmly believe that they requested that deposit because they didn't think we would be able to pay it, since two thousand dollars is a lot to come up with in a week and a half.

This swicharoo, along with all the problems they were giving me immediately after I reported them to the city, makes me believe without-a-doubt that this is retaliation. What can I do in this situation? I'm a college student and can't afford to hire an attorney, but I also don't want an eviction mark on my history because that would be very bad. I honestly don't know what to do.

Answer: Check to see if your university offers student legal services! Mine does and like 90% of what they handle is sketchy landlord situations.


Title: Court appearance tomorrow for possession of alcohol...what to expect??

Question:
I am 20/F in Dayton, OH. I was with three of my friends (also 20) a couple weeks ago at the liquor store a few blocks from our uni. I've been there many times in the past year using my fake ID. I bought two fifths and a six pack of Sam Adams for us. Then we got stopped by three undercover cops in the parking lot asking to see ID. I was so shell-shocked that I didn't know what to do, so I just handed the cop my fake ID. I never told them it was real--they asked to see ID and I gave them what I had used to buy the alcohol. However, I did just stand there while he called it in to check if it was real.

So obviously the cops found out it was fake, and they didn't give me a hard time. I'm lucky enough that they only wrote me up for possession of alcohol by a minor, and not for the fake ID or distributing to minors (my friends). But I just don't know what to expect in court... will I be asked to tell the whole story? If so can I be charged with falsification and distributing to minors after the fact?? Or can I just leave it at "I was in possession of the alcohol when I was approached by the officers, they asked to see my ID and since I'm underaged I got charged with this offense"?

I am a first-time offender, besides a speeding ticket I had over the summer (75 in a 60) if that matters. Please give any advice!! Thanks.

Answer:
 Underage possession is the highest level of misdemeanor.  Get an attorney.  Many courts have diversion programs, I don't know if the one you are going to does.Answer #2: You can be charged with any of those crimes after the fact.  Do not admit to them but do not lie either.  Your best bet would be say nothing about it.

If are only charged with possession:

> Offenders under 21 may be fined up to $1,000 and/or no
> more than 180 days imprisonment. Offenders may enter
> into a Diversion program on a first offense. Additional
> penalties including license suspension, if violation
> occurred in a motor vehicle, are possible.

[Source](http://miamioh.edu/images/student-life/off-campus-affairs/ohio-drinking-laws.pdf)

It will be up to the judge to decide what level of penalty you will get.  Since it is your first offence a diversion program is possible but its completely up to the judge.  If you don't plan on going in with a lawyer dress nicely and be respectful.

Answer #3: You've waited til the last minute. Honestly maybe it's no big deal but if I were you, get to the courthouse early, I would walk up to someone standing around wearing a suit the who doesn't look like they're fresh out of law school (although how picky can you be at this point?) and ask if they are an attorney. Then would they be willing to represent you during the hearing and for how much. Quite a few people do this sort of thing. It isn't ideal, but you can most likely find someone so you aren't flying solo.


Title: Bank foreclosed on my house in 2012. I had a VA loan, and I think they had been charging me for PMI.

Question:
I do not have proof that I know how to access for any of this, I was younger and ignorant at the time. I bought a home in 2007 with a 30year fixed interest VA loan that Country Wide financed for a year or two. I remember the  mortgage payment being just over $1500. Then the loan got switched to BOA, and my payment went up to about $1750. I remember calling when that happened and they told me I had not been putting enough in escrow. At the time I just accepted that, until I ran into financial problems. I called BOA several times asking if there was any way they could work with me to reduce the payment which they refused to do. I tried to do a short sell, got an offer for the amount owed that they refused, and chose to foreclose. Now I do not have any VA benefits left, do not qualify for a conventional loan for another 1.5years,  and looking back I believe it was because BOA had started charging me for PMI.

I have no idea if there is anything I can do about this. A lot of paperwork and assets have been lost over the years in all the moves. Any help on my options at this point would be very appreciated.

Answer:
 You need to locate the loan documentation and figure out whether you were being charged PMI or not.
IANAL but I don’t believe even if they were overcharging you that you would be able to get rid of the foreclosure.


Title: Utility company tore up yard near the street for a new gas line. They were promised to return it to original condition. They have not. Can I have the yard fixed and then send them the bill?

Question:
Location Ohio

About 4 months ago the local gas company had new gas lines and meters installed on my street. All the work was done quickly, but they had to tear up everyone’s yard between the sidewalk and street. They promised to return all our yards to original condition. They haven’t done that. They just filled up the hole with dirt and gravel. About 1/3 of my street frontage is a nasty muddy and gravely mess. I’ve tried to get ahold of them with no luck.

My question is can I hire someone to fix this and then send them the bill? How would I go about doing that? Honestly, I would actually prefer to just do it myself. Can I bill them for my time? If so how do I calculate a fair rate? Would I have any luck sending them an itemized invoice as an individual? It’s going to take 5-6 hours to dig up the top layer of dirt, sift the gravel out of it, replace it, and re-seed it.

Thanks!

Answer: While INAL. I read enough to know the response you will get. Best course of action will to be reach out to landscaping companies and get quotes to fix the mess. Assuming it is under 10k bring them to small claims court with proof of what your yard looked like before hand(photos printed out) what it looks like afterwards. Proof they did the work. Print everything out.Answer #2: File a complaint here https://www.puco.ohio.gov/puco/index.cfm/contact-us/contact-us-form/index.cfm?intype=complaint


Title: Used to work for employer but he treated me bad so I quit on good terms with 2 weeks notice. He wanted me to come back and I said no. Now he's bad mouthing me to my fellow customers and guests and I work in the restaurant business where word of mouth spreads. Can I sue for slander and defamation?

Question: [Pennsylvania, USA] He's calling me crazy and a bad worker and stupid. A regular guest of mine just called me up and told me, so I have a witness. How can I get my former boss to stop ruining my name and scaring people away from coming to see me at my new restaurant? I've already told him to leave me alone in the past cause he was bothering me harassing me to come back to work so I blocked his number. I don't want to talk to him anymore

Answer:
 If he is saying something untrue and it affects your employability/reputation, go for it. I would suggest an official cease and desist letter from a lawyer first. Cant tell you what the outcome would be just from your post, but good luck Answer #2: Talk to a lawyer. Dont tell him or anyone else you're talking to a lawyer unless the lawyer OKs it.

Also, check Yelp or Google Reviews or Facebook or whatever social media rating site you can think of to see if he's badmouthing you there


Title: Putting under the table job on college app?

Question: I’ve been living in the US since I was 3, but am not a US citizen. My parents are both on a H1b visa, and are legally allowed to work, but as a dependent I am not. I work a job at a tutoring center and get paid in cash every 2 weeks, and don’t file taxes on my salary. I make about $4,800 per year, and I live in Washington state. I’ll be applying to college next year and was wondering if I will be able to list my job on my application. Note that I won’t be needing any financial aid or assistance (not sure if I would even be eligible anyways). Would there be any legal ramifications for reporting this job on college apps for me or my employer?

Answer: I would not put it in your application. You do not want to have a paper trail.


Title: Girlfriend Killed by drunk driver. Legal Questions.

Question:
My girlfriend of 6.5 years along with 2 of her coworkers and the driver of another car were killed last November by a drunk driver. The drunk driver was being pursued by the police and turned around to drive into oncoming traffic on the highway on a foggy night.

My girlfriend was a passenger. We had just purchased a home together. I was the beneficiary on her life insurance (which i have received.) She was also on my auto insurance. I am curious if there is any sort of claim that can be made on my auto insurance.

Apparently my girlfriend's family lawyer may have submitted something, as I received a letter from my insurance 6 or 8 weeks after the accident saying my claim was denied (though i never made a claim.)

My question is, should I pursue anything with my insurance company? Do I have any case? We weren't married, but she was on the policy and we did own a home together. I haven't felt like dealing with any of this shit and am just now getting around to thinking about possibly trying to see if I am being treated unfairly by my insurance. (Progressive.)

I live in Wisconsin if that makes any difference.

Thank you for any and all advice.

(I should add that the drunk driver beyond being a huge piece of shit in general, and having 2 prior DUIs, also has no real assets that I know of, and I believe it has been established he had no insurance. I nor my girlfriend's family have plans of even dealing with legal action against him in terms of collecting "damages"... yes... he survived.)

Answer: If you weren't married, you don't have any ability to take action with her auto insurance.  There's no beneficiary on auto insurance like there is with life insurance, it just pays out to the insured person.  If there were a claim to be made, the manager of her estate/next of kin would be the only one able  to deal with that on her behalf.  Which is probably why the family lawyer tried to submit whatever it was he did.


Title: Posting someones number to craiglist as a joke, they called the cops and reported it. No previous record, how much trouble am i in?

Question: [deleted]

Answer: I suspect the contents of the post are going to be somewhat relevant.  "Old lawn mower for sale" is less likely to get police motivated than a "rape fantasy" post.


Title: [Alberta, CA] Parents died in a car accident and kids (21F/19F/16F)are in ICU, where to start

Question: [deleted]

Answer:
 So, the only thing you really need to worry about here is the 16yo.  She is still a minor.

Since they are Canadians and most likely living in Canada, I would see if either of the bigger sisters would like to take care of the 16year old until she is no longer a minor.

Things to investigate asap:

1. Life Insurance - did he have some, who does it pay out to, etc

2. Supplimental Health insurance - given that the primaries on whatever health insurance they had both died, the insurance is probably cancelled.  You might want to look into this however.  If it has gone away, I would look at enrolling them in something like a individual Blue Cross plan (or whichever company offers the best value).  This will cover dental, ambulance (not sure if Alberta covers ambulance already, Ontario and Manitoba don't), eye care and drugs.

3. Legal guardianship of 16yo.  Did the will state who is to assume guardianship?  If not, you need to figure it out.

Next on the list would be "housekeeping".  Do the girls want some of the parent's stuff?  What about the house?  I am sure there will be an insurance payout from the vehicle, who gets it?  Some money should be put aside for their education if possible, however, you need to follow the will most likely and that might put money into someone else's hands so be prepared to negotiate with those people for the best interest of the children (perhaps have family give up claim)

It is not possible that a minor dependant may change the will, not sure how it works.

Edit: Mobile phones suck when asleepAnswer #2: Nothing to say but my condolences to you and everyone involved. Good luck and thank you for helping these people.


Title: (TN) Truck pulled out infront of me while on my motorcycle

Question:
So it's a sunny day and i decide to go out for a ride on my ninja 650. Riding around town just enjoying myself the weather was clear on this day with pretty heavy traffic.

First i want to describe the road in the perspective that im travelling. There is a turn lane, the left lane, middle lane, and a right lane on my side of the road.

I was travelling in the left lane until i go through an intersection. I ended up making a lane change from the left lane to the middle lane. I get to travel about another 30 seconds and someone in the left lane left a small spot open for a truck to pull across all 3 lanes into a mcdonalds.

He pulls out infront of me with a distance of maybe 15ft between us. I tried braking and im pretty sure i locked up the rear wheel. It was all so quick i couldnt remember. I hit the truck near the middle on the right passenger side. And ended up in the mcdonalds turn in spot.

The bike is totalled and i got a broken collar bone and might have torn my ACL which i still have to get an mri done. The other driver was ticketed on scene for failure to yield.

He is now challenging it and i just got called by his insurance saying theyll cover only 70%... this still leaves me around 2k owed on the bike and only 70% of my medical and wages for work missed that week.

Bottom line is 70% is not enough and the officer wrote the police report as if i wasnt at fault but told the guys insurance i was riding the shoulder.

What can I do to get my atleast my bike paid off? Do i need to take this guys insurance to court?

Thank you.

Answer: Contact your insurance,that's exactly why you pay them.Answer #2: You can always deny it, hire a lawyer and sue the driver for 100% and legal costs.


Title: Consultants want to sell software I wrote for my company

Question: [deleted]

Answer:
 Really should have gotten that in writing. As you were compensated for your time this will be very difficult to prove. Answer #2: > I took a 20k annual paycut for this job on the condition and verbal agreement

You took a 20K cut on *verbal* agreement? WTF?Answer #3: Do you have any kind of documentation — an email, a voicemail — anything that confirms or suggests that you would get to keep the rights to software you develop at work? Usually you don’t, so if it’s really only an oral agreement between you and your boss that no one else knows about then it might be hard to enforce it if the boss tries to renege.Answer #4: > verbal agreement that I could retain full ownership on all of my programs

Verbal agreement? What verbal agreement.. All agreements concerning IP and the university must be in writing... See, it says so right here in this huge book of policies no one reads. Thanks for the income boost!Answer #5: Unless you have something in writing saying you own the rights to all the software you create, it's pretty typical the company owns anything the employee creates. Unless someone pipes up and admits there was a verbal agreement its going to be very difficult if not impossible to prove this verbal agreement existed since this type of agreement is outside the norm for employees.


Title: I was driving behind a truck with a sign posted on the back that said "Stay back 200 feet. Not responsible for broken windshields." Would this hold up at all? (Pennsylvania, USA)

Answer:
 If the object fell off the truck, no, it wouldn't hold up and they would be liable because they are responsible for securing their loads.  But if the tires kicked up a rock in the road and broke your windshield they would likely not be liable.

Edit: duplicate word


Title: Guitar Center charged me twice, but they deny receiving any orders.

Question: So I tried to buy a digital piano on the Guitar Center online shop with my debit card. On the first transaction, their webpage showed error when I submitted my order. So I made a new order with the same exact item, address, and debit card number and this time it went through. I got the 'order placed' page and the order number. I have this screen saved as a proof, because they never sent me an order confirmation email. I recently found out that I was charged twice with the transaction and I assume that the first transaction still charged me even though there was an error and the order was incomplete and not submitted. So I contected their customer service, and on the live chat, they said that they could not find any order placed under my name or email account. I gave him the order number of the second transaction and they said nothing came up with the order number provided. I asked him if he's sure that there was no payment or order made by Visa ending-xxxx(my debit card) and he responded that there was no payment or order made by me. I have this conversation saved. I looked up my order number myself and nothing showed up. I saved this screen as well. The transactions were 453.59 dollars each, so total 907.18 dollars payed to Guitar Center.com. It shows up as POS DEBIT GUITARCENTER.COM INTERN 877-687-4242 CA on my chase bank account. I looked up 877-687-4242 and its Guitar Center in Lawnsdale CA. So I payed twice for a digital piano twice by an error yet Guitar Center denies that they have received any order of payment from me. I contacted Chase. Is there anything I can do? Is there a hope to win a debit card dispute like this? What do I do if Chase doesn't solve the problem?

Answer:
 Are the transactions listed as pending or completed?

If they are just listed as pending, then they will probably disappear in the next few days. If they don't disappear, or they are already listed as completed, then you need to file a dispute with your bank. In that dispute, you need to say that the retailer has no record of either transaction.


Title: MICHIGAN; What can I charge for, criminal and civil, for non-consensual posting of nude pictures, that were taken by the husband during marriage, and posted on multiple websites after divorce?

Question:
Also, how do I get these legally removed from the sites and is there a way to get them scrubbed from his computer/phone? Is that a warrant type thing?
Topic:
Computer and Internet

Answer:
 This website could be helpful: https://www.rainn.org/safe-tech and there may be other pages on the site that apply to you.

Michigan does seem to have a revenge porn - which is what youre describing - law on the books. This page from the University of Michigan has more info: https://socialmedia.umich.edu/blog/intimate-image-sharing-what-are-my-rights/Answer #2: Pursue your potential civil remedies with an attorney.

Report the crime to the police. They can refer it to the District Attorney’s office for prosecution. You can also try reaching out to your District Attorney about prosecuting as well, but you can’t bring criminal charges yourself; only the DA’s office can.


Title: Friend was killed by a hit and run driver last night. Looking for advice to help his family.

Question:
My friend's boyfriend was killed last night and everyone is pretty much in shock. I'm trying to think of all the practical things that she can't focus on right now to help her out.

They have been together for nearly 20 years but never married, so I don't know what benefits she would be entitled to. They have three children, and he was the only source of income. She is unable to work due to health issues, probably about halfway to a fibro diagnosis, but it could be forever before she gets disability.

Someone said she needs to get paperwork to get survivors benefits for the kids, but he had three other children as well. Is it divided among all the kids or is it a set amount? I don't know if that would be enough to support them, or how long it takes.

There are no life insurance policies, and they lived paycheck to paycheck. She doesn't have enough for June's rent, so we already have people trying to take up a collection to by her some time. I'm also looking up info on funeral homes.  The coroner said they will release the body Wednesday, so I'm trying to figure this out quickly.

She's thinking about cremation. This seems like the best option to me too. It's less expensive,  and I've known this guy almost 20 years, he wouldn't want a big to-do. I'll call around about that tomorrow.

If they find the driver,  is there amy chance that his/her insurance would help pay for funeral expenses? I don't know how any of this works.

I know that there are a million things to do, but I can't focus. I need a list to get me going so I can check them off.

Thanks for any advice.

Update: Sorry, we're in California.

Answer:
 >so I don't know what benefits she would be entitled to.

Unfortunately not many.  If you really care and depend on someone, you *need* to get married because the number of benefits that are extended are enormous.

>They have three children, and he was the only source of income.

[Immediately have her apply for survivor's benefits from Social Security](https://www.ssa.gov/planners/survivors/onyourown4.html).  This will get her kids pretty immediate supplemental income until they're adults.  Based on what you're telling us, it will make the difference between poverty and a dignified childhood.

>She is unable to work due to health issues, probably about halfway to a fibro diagnosis, but it could be forever before she gets disability.

I've seen tons of people go bankrupt waiting on a disability claim that doesn't go through, needs appealing, and still is pending years later.  She needs to work with an attorney to expedite this.  They have very flexible payment terms, but this is a collateral issue that shouldn't be addressed until things calm down.

>Is it divided among all the kids or is it a set amount?

[Here's a benefits breakdown](https://www.ssa.gov/planners/survivors/onyourown5.html).  She won't get the survivor's portion because they weren't married.

>There are no life insurance policies, and they lived paycheck to paycheck.

I'm a hound for life insurance.  $20 a month would have changed their lives here, neither here nor there though.

>is there amy chance that his/her insurance would help pay for funeral expenses? I don't know how any of this works.

Probably not.  She needs to look into WIC eligibility and SSI.  Those are the big welfare sources that may save her here.


Title: Feel ripped on for my ad campaingg with a large radio station in NYC

Question: Hi My wife and I run a small business with our son as only employee. - We tried to advertise on the radio and signed a contract with a large radio station in New York for a year with option to cancel after 3 months at $10,000 per month - Contract does not stipulate any results guarantee but verbally we were told great stories - Campaign failed with sales increasing only 10% and we discussed and were convinced that the sales could be at least doubled with millions of listeners - We were told to give a more time each time we complained and finally ran out of patience and options and requested termination after 2 months. They agreed - Due to this loss we are almost out of cash and could fail soon which we told then - I asked for paying of half of the remaining $15,000.00 in monthly payments which they did not accept. - I used lack of performance, being overcharged , lack of disclosing truth about their advertising experience with similar businesses which I asked for early to see if we are being treated fairly. - Can I do anything about cutting the bill without getting entangled in more costs. Will it help to send a letter from a lawyer ?

Answer:
 You bought ads and you received the ads you agreed to buy, right?

If they didn't guarantee specific results, I don't see why you think you have a leg to stand on here.


Title: Can you be fired for too many unpaid sick days under the ADA?

Question:
My best friend has a disability recognized by the ADA.
Her employer knows this.
She takes between 4-5 days a month off due to her disability and being sick. (Her immune system is compromised, and has several other things, but it is recognized by the ADA and her employer knows this.)
She takes a lot of sick days, way more than her employee agreement pays, but takes them unpaid. Could she potentially be fired for taking too many sick days? I'm asking out of curiosity, and concern for her and her ability to pay bills. Her job is full time, and cannot be done from home.

Answer:
 If she takes an excessive amount of sick days that causes an undue burden on her employer, she can be fired. ADA accommodations have to be *reasonable* accommodations.

Say she is taking 5 days out of an average 22 working days off each month. If she has a small department and the overtime is a burden on her employer or other employees, she could potentially be fired.


Title: I'm being blackmailed by someone who catfished me(US).

Question:
I thought I was getting involved with a guy I met on a BDSM site. He seemed like a good guy and we had plans for meeting up last weekend. When it came time  to pick me he was a no show. He sent me a text revealing that he's not who I thought he's a 16 year old kid from Costa Rica. He's now threatening me with releasing photos and videos I took for him if I don't put them out my self.

Is there anything I can do since he's allegedly not in the US?

Update: After I threatened to sue him for invasion of privacy or for revenge porn he backed down and went silent he seems to just be a punk doing this for kicks.

Answer: Releasing how?  This is probably a scam and everything he told you is a lie. Who knows who or where he really is. I would just ignore/block him.


Title: Employers charging you to leave a job?

Answer: What is the $30 purportedly for? Is it reimbursement for a licensing fee, training or customized equipment that you can take with you when you leave? Answer #2: I think you can be penalized if you agreed to it beforehand (for example, some employers will require you to agree to repay training fees if you quit too soon).  Unless there's a state law saying you can't be (and we're talking Arkansas here, so...).


Title: FL Employer failed to provide health insurance enrollment information, was the law broken?

Question:
(Sorry in advance for being vague on some of the details.  I have no background knowledge on how this stuff works, and am not involved in this situation.  I can ask the friend in question for more information if needed.)

A friend of mine is a full time employee of a popular restaurant chain.  She received her health insurance through her job, and apparently every year management lets them know if they are eligible to renew their policy.  Having heard nothing from their manager, she assumed that she was ineligible to renew and was looking into finding a policy on her own.  (I guess she didn't know the exact date her policy expired?)  She's "generally healthy" and therefore wasn't very worried about it.

She had some kind of annoying dental issue- didn't think it was anything major, just something to see a dentist about sooner or later.  Turns out this annoying issue was an abscess in her tooth, and it ruptured this morning while she was at work.  She was in such pain that her manager almost called an ambulance, but once she realized it wasn't a life or death issue my friend decided to just catch a ride home and go to the dentist first thing in the morning.

The fun part is that she found out a few hours later that her manager had failed to give her whatever information or notice to renew her policy, as she was eligible.  Her manager's reasoning was, "You're young, so I didn't think you would want health insurance."

She contacted HR, but it's apparently too late for her to renew her policy.  She's worried about being slapped with a fee for being uninsured, and is furious that her manager just assumed that she would be uninterested in continuing her policy.  She's convinced that there must be some kind of law against his behavior (he distributed the relevant information to all of her coworkers eligible for coverage, but because of her age figured it wasn't necessary to do so, and if she really wanted it she could have asked).  For some reason she thought I'd have some knowledge on the subject and asked me for advice.

Did her manager have a legal responsibility to provide the relevant information/paperwork/whatever?  Or is my friend screwed for not being more on top of her situation?  Any advice or guidance is greatly appreciated!  (Also what the hell should I flare this as?)

Answer: Your friend needs to see a dentist very soon. Abcessed teeth are no joke and the possible infection spread is dangerous. Answer #2: She made a HUGE and wrong assumption. Is this health insurance (and rules about qualifications) in her employment documents or handbook anywhere?


Title: Dealership threw away engine, what should i do

Question:
I recently had warranty work done on my vehicle through the dealership that sold me the car. I had to have my engine replaced and the company sending the replacement didn’t ask for the core (old engine) back and being that it was my old engine it should’ve been given to me. I spoke to the specialist working on my vehicle and he said the engine is mine and he would try and get the old engine delivered to me. I asked that if he couldn’t if he could contact me and i would go to get the engine. He never contacted me, today i called to see if i can get the engine but said that the engine was no longer there and was thrown away and apologized. Even though the engine was damaged it was well worth 2-3,000 dollars and no one in the service department knows who picks up the scrap all they know is that its gone the next day. How should i go about talking to their company and working to receive my engine?

Tldr; engine work was done old engine was replaced i shouldve received old engine but they threw it away and dont know what happened to it.

Answer:
 Why do you feel that the dealership should have given you your old engine back when they replaced your engine, given that the dealership was performing warranty service? Answer #2: As a mechanic, engines always have cores.  Even junkyard used engines.

We SHOW customers parts and give
Them to customers If it’s not warranty and the parts have no core.   But engines always have cores

Edit-really op? A downvote for answering you with relevant experience and industry knowledge?

You don’t want advice you want the internet to rally behind you.

Tell you what, our shops part suppliers generally charge about $800 for engine cores.  So if for some reason you want a broken engine that’s not worth any money, expect to pay $800.


Title: Can a minor receive a ticket for biking without a helmet?

Question:
My city just announced that they are handing out tickets to people caught riding their bicycle without a helmet. I was wondering if a minor could receive one of those tickets and how that process would work exactly, like would it be your parents responsibility?
Topic:
Juvenile and Youth Law

Answer:
 Location is not optional. Wear a helmet.Answer #2: If this is written into local ord as a criminal violation, then minors can be cited accordingly. It would be your parents' responsibility to ensure you fulfill your obligations to the citation.

Answer #3: Yes, being a minor doesn't prevent you from getting a ticket or getting arrested. Don't break the law if you don't want a ticket.Answer #4: Yes, it is legal. If a 13 or 14 year old is arrested... whose responsibility is it to 'take care' of the child? The parents.

The same goes for infractions and citations issued to minors under ordinances or codes. The parents are responsible.

I'd rather issue a ticket than have to respond to a call where a child is brain dead from a fall. Cop btw.Answer #5: Our local police give out smoking tickets to anyone smoking underage. The person that received one had to appear in court and plead guilty or not guilty. Most of the time the fine was waived for community service. The guilty party had to to go the juvenile probation office and get set up with them to be assigned a community service location. So yes, a juvenile can be held responsible for any ticket they receive for breaking the law. My parents were never held responsible for any of my fines when I was underage.


Title: School searched personal property without my permission

Question:
In my free time, I very much enjoy computer science and pentesting. This story takes place last Thursday. I recently developed a program that sniffs saves passwords from google chrome. Dumb me brought a flashdrive with the program on it to school. I was in my first hour ap java class in my highschools computer lab. I had the flashdrive in my hand and I was talking to my friend. My teacher was mad that I was talking to my friend during class, blamed it on the flashdrive in my hand and took it from me. IMPORTANT I never plugged the flashdrive into the computer or even attempted. The  security camera in the lab would prove so. The next morning I get called down to the office. Apparently the IT department searched my flashdrive and they said the contents were “illegal”. They called home and gave me a warning. The next time I do something like this, it’s an automatic pre expulsion hearing. I never got my drive back. I thought this was fishy. I didn’t think the school was allowed to search my flashdrive, just as if you were caught with a phone in class, the teacher can’t search through it. This morning, in the same class, my friend joking around dropped a handful of flash drives on my desk, and said “you forgot this at my house”. The teacher took all of them right away and said that the IT guy told her to do so. These flash drives had harmless viruses on them that I gave to my friend as a joke. IMPORTANT, they were never plugged in to any school computer. Now the school said they are gonna search them and call me down to the office tomorrow. What legal rights do I have? Are they allowed to search these? Please let me know with any questions.
Topic:
School Related Issues

Answer:
 They are allowed to search them, especially after you proved once you couldn't be trusted.

Tell your parents what happened, and hope they can talk you out of serious punishment.

And stop doing dumb shit with computers unless you're looking to get yourself locked up.


Title: [Ohio] Yesterday I was Streaming and got donated 1k, Today I'm getting charged back.[EDITED]

Question:
on my stream yesterday, a random popped in, after about 40 minutes of streaming he donated 10 dollars, it progressed and he started dropping 100 dollars. i got a notification from PayPal today letting me know i was now in a dispute over the charges. I don't know what to do so i have been collecting evidence on my VODs and taking screenshots, i figure PayPal might ask for them or something? i don't know.

I need advice on what to do, I need to know what i should do next and if there is anyway to stop this. If i don't i might end up having to pay $360 on top of what was given to me.

Answer: Not much you can realistically do.  By using Paypal you're agreeing to their dispute resolution process and it's nearly impossible to initiate legal action to someone watching your cam site.


Title: Roomates trying to forcibly replace my friend even though he's on the lease.

Question:
So I'm posting this for a friend, since he came and asked me for advice.  I wanted to make sure I didn't tell him anything wrong, so here I am, humbly asking for you to give me some advice.  This is occurring in the state of New Jersey.

**The story:**

So together, my friend and three others moved into an University owned apartment on a nine month lease.  They were chums moving in, but it quickly turned sour.  After two weeks, the three others began to despise him.  It wasn't for anything heinous, mostly just little stupid things about his personality, like the shows he watched and the fact that he showered before bed.  I've known this guy for a while, and he's an entirely decent person, so I'd be shocked if he did anything illegal or morally wrong.

So without his permission, the three other guys decided that they're going to let a fifth person move in and sleep on the couch and pay his share of rent.  Note that they didn't ask my friend's permission before deciding on this.  He thinks that they're trying to replace him with this fifth friend, as absurd as that sounds, because they've come to hate him that much.  They never actually said that last part, so make of that what you will.  The fifth guy is going to move in tomorrow.

Obviously, my friend is not okay with this, and wants advice on what he can do.  He wants to keep living in the apartment because he has no other option, and he is definitely not okay with a fifth person moving in.  My advice was to basically tell them to go fuck themselves.  I said that they can't kick him out if he's on the lease, and that he can threaten to report them to the landlord, since allowing a fifth person to move in would almost definitely be an infraction of the lease agreement.  Obviously, I'm not a lawyer so I don't wanted to get another opinion on the issue, since I'm not a lawyer.  I really appreciate any advice you guys might have.

Answer: They can't kick him out if he is on the lease. He should talk to the landlord immediately. The landlord needs to take action *before* this person moves in and establishes tenancy, at which point you could all be evicted for violating the lease.


Title: Mother stole 28k

Question:
I have an annuity due to a wrongful death case involving my father. From age 18-21 I received lump-sums in the amount of 28k (mother said it was strictly for college, and whatever was left goes in pocket).

I struggled with heroin addiction from 15-22 years old. When I was 21 I was in a 30 day inpatient program.

Probably about 10 days in my mother shows up for a family session. During this session she quietly slides me a check and tells me to sign the back, so I did (apparently, I do not remember signing).

For context, I was roughly 10 days off of a heavy IV heroin addiction, and I had recently been put on Depakote thrice daily and Zyprexa twice daily due to a wrongful bipolar diagnosis. Basically, I was not in my right mind.

The check I apparently signed was my year 21 annuity check in the amount of $28,000.

My mother later told me she cashed it and put it into an account for me for when I was ready to return to college (I had finished 2 years at this point). Great, I'm not worried about it. More worried about staying off heroin. Fast forward to now, it has been about 3.5 years, and I have been off of heroin and all psych meds (with no indication of bipolar) for nearly 3 years.

Roughly six months ago I told my mother I was applied for a school and was going back to finish my bachelors and I needed my 28k. She spent it all. She has no money of her own. She received a large settlement in my father's case, but she blew through hers on crack benders and the like. She now lives paycheck to paycheck with no money saved. She recently told me she has 75k equity in her home. That I know.

I realize some of this information may be revealing, but at this point it do not care. I have no idea what to do. I do not care if I bankrupt my mother. This occurred in Illinois where my mother lives. I no longer live in that state. Thank you for your help.

Answer:
 You should talk to an Illinois lawyer to get things started.  You should be able to sue your mother and recover some damages.

Unfortunately you can't force her to sell her home so she can pay you off all at once.  And you will have to pay the lawyer.  Most likely you'll have to accept her paying you over time through garnishing her wages.  Answer #2: I believe that 28k is above the small claims court limit so you will need to hire a lawyer (most likely in illinois).Answer #3: Another option would be to report her to the police. If a prosecutors secures a conviction for embezzlement it would likely include an order to pay restitution.


Title: Ohio - my younger sister is trying to take back her son from my older sister who has raised the child from birth.

Question: My younger sister got pregnant at 16, and my older sister and her husband graciously offered to adopt the baby, even though they already had three boys under the age of 5. My younger sister was not able to raise the baby, and so my older sister took him in so that he wouldn't have to be given up to an entirely different family. This was not to be a temporary thing- it was meant to be a permanent adoption. The TIFU was that my older sister and her husband failed to file official adoption paperwork (due to cost or something). Anyway, now, three years later, my younger sister has graduated from high school, joined the military, and wants her baby back- even though it was agreed before the birth that this was a no takebacksies and that my older sister would always be the mom. Is there anything my older sister and her husband can do, or are they just screwed and going to lose their son?

Answer:
 Without a formal adoption, the biological parents have a near absolute right to raise their own children. The only exception would be to petition a court to find younger sister an unfit parent. I don't know that it would be possible on the facts you've provided. You can't "no givebacksies" a child.

This is why you don't brush off paperwork. Answer #2: They should get a lawyer. Not completing the adoption paperwork was a major fuck up, but they do also have some kind of argument given that they have acted like the child's parents for three years.

Edit: Just to be clear I am not saying that they have a good argument, but if they want to keep the child it is worth consulting a lawyer.


Title: I was forced to ride in an ambulance when I was 17 even though I refused. Is there a way I can get the fees waived if I can show that I told them I wanted to drive myself?

Question: So few years ago my buddy was doing his Eagle Scouts project at our small local zoo. A beam was propped up against a fence and a ram knocked it over and knocked me out. I came to 30 seconds later (not even sure I really passed out I was just really dazed from it) then my friends Dad and the zoo staff had me lay there until the ambulance arrived. I know that was the smart thing but at that point I knew I was find in the immediate timeframe and said I would drive myself. The paramedic said he’d need my guardians signature if I wanted to turn down the ride seeing as my folks were both out of town that wasn’t happening. I got taken to the hospital they sat me on a bed in a hallway for about 20 minuets and said I was fine. All of that cost 3000 dollars. Since I just recently got away from my parents I got slapped with whatever they’ve been putting off. I could probably grovel and ask they take it back over but I told myself I wouldn’t take anything from them after I left (pretty toxic household except for my little sister). I’m going to be honest this was an unforeseen cost when I moved out and I’m seriously lost on the steps I need to take. I’m 20 now and am still learning how the “adult” life works

Answer:
 > Since I just recently got away from my parents I got slapped with whatever they’ve been putting off.

What? Who is billing you. Because this would presumably be on your parents/the zoo's insurance.


Title: We tried to file my son's taxes electronically. His return was rejected because someone has already filed using his SSN.

Question: We tried to file my son's taxes (IN, USA) electronically using TuboTax. His return was rejected because someone has already filed using his SSN. We went ahead and filed by mail. Not sure what to do next besides pull his credit report.

Answer: Double check that the ss# on his w2 matches your son's actual ss#.Answer #2: The IRS will do their own investigation and determine which is filing is correct for the SSN. It was probably just a typo on the other filing. This happened to me, and I had to send in my paper return. I actually didn't hear anything from the IRS and my return was processed like normal. I assume they reached out to the other party to correct theirs.Answer #3: This happened to me! Go to irs.gov sign up for account request a report of all filings. It shows where it came from. May require a ten day delay for them to send you a verification code in the mail but not always. Then file the paper one correctly and follow the fraud instructions online from the irs website. It’s not as scary as it seems at first. Also sign him up for lifelock since you don’t know if this was intentional or an error ?


Title: Own 10% of my company, looking to sell shares and move on

Question:
Quick overview:

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I am 10% stakeholder in a retail cannabis business in California. While I have a partnership contract that proves my vested equity, I do not have a buy-sell agreement with my partner, nor do I have an up to date company valuation. What I can say is that we are on pace to gross around $3M in revenue this year, with a 100% gross profit margin after COGS, before any other expenses.

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Long story short, I feel like it is time for me to move on to the next chapter of my career, and would like to sell 50%-100% of my shares to either my business partner or a third party if he approves it. This is my first time navigating these waters, and am unsure how to go about the process with little to no conflict. My business partner's father, whom was our primary investor in the company when we launched, is a powerful business man whom is considered to be a shark by those who cross his path. While my relationship with my business partner, along with his father, has been positive, I am worried about getting taken advantage of during my exit due to his father's reputation as being a cut throat business man. I have expressed this concern to my partner and while he assured me that he would keep my best interests in mind,  I still want to do everything I can to cover my ass.

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Looking for advice on the following:

A. How to nagivate negotiating and executing my exit

B. How to determine the value of our company, with and without bringing in a third party

C. How to protect myself from getting screwed

D. How to maximize my takeaway in the most fair way possible

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I appreciate any help. I understand that this probably makes me out to be a naiive, inexperienced kid. But this really is the first time I have ever experienced this and the people I am negotiating with are far more experienced than I. I also want to end my relationship with my partner on a positive note.

Answer: Far far far beyond the scope of this sub. You need to hire your own attorneys or consultants to guide you


Title: Rental house being auctioned by bank tomorrow, what to expect?

Question: [deleted]

Answer: If you're in a lease the lease carries to the new owners. If you're not then Florida requires 15 day notice to vacate.


Title: My child support was amended. Neither party is fighting it yet I just got a summons. Why? (Virginia)

Question: Last month I submitted a proposal to modify my child support. The child support was modified and I thought all was good. My ex wife said it was fair and was not fighting it. The letter I got said that no hearing is required unless one of the parties requests a hearing within 30 days of the notice and motion. I just got a summons to go to court next month over this. Why?

Answer:
 No one can guess at the answer here.

Though if the child support modification is not consistent with the statutory calculation, or of the judge is unsure of basis in the statutory calculation, it would be reasonable for her to set a hearing to ask questions.


Title: [AK] I am wanting to break my apartment lease.

Question:
I have a weird living situation. I rent a room in a large living area where  there are 7 other bedrooms and a central common area with kitchen, living room, etc.

It seemed like a great place at first but I got weird vibes from the landlord, who also owns the business on the bottom floor of the building I am in. My other roommates told me some shady shit about him but I decided it would be best if I just keep my head out of potential drama and disregard what they told me. Still I was a little nervous because some of my interactions with the landlord were...strange....but not immediate red flags (what landlord is perfect, anyways?).

Well today when I got home there was a note on the refrigerator. It was hand written and started with giant letters that say "HEY GUYS!!!". I took a picture of it, if there is enough interest I will post it. It basically said to stop doing certain things, things which might apply to me but could also easily apply to any of the other 6 tenants (cleaning up after yourself, not burning candles all night "not being nasty"). At the bottom of the note it read, EVICTION and it listed one of the tenants names  ...and also my name. It said next to the other tenants name, "this is your 1st and last notice" and next to mine it said "doing much better thank you". In my two months in this place I have not been made aware of any issues that have been caused by me...this was my first time learning that apparently I have been causing problems and it was on a public eviction warning posted on the fridge.

To say I'm ashamed and embarrassed is an understatement. I thought about removing the note but...I don't want to do anything to further incriminate myself? I honestly want to just move out. Right now. I cannot believe this man is so unprofessional as to publicly shame me and the other tenant for our "bad behavior" (again I have no idea what exactly I did).

I signed a 6 month lease that ends on September 30. There is an item in the lease that says that if I move out before then, I have to basically pay an extra security deposit, not to mention losing any hope of have my original security deposit returned.

I can get free legal advice through my job, and I plan to, but right now I'm fired up and I'm just curious if you all think I might have grounds to just leave and not have anything sent to collections. I'm a god damned professional and I feel like a bad child.

Thank you for any advise you have and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Edit: I forgot to mention, after I read the note, I sent my landlord the following text:

            XXXX, I saw the note on the fridge. Why is my name on it? I'd appreciate if you let me know if I'm doing something wrong personally rather than posting a public note.

Answer: You're asking if a note left on the fridge is grounds to break your lease?


Title: Ordered delivery last night. Delivery boy stole a package on our porch which lead me to finding out they added a debit card tip without authorization, which lead to me finding out they've done it in the past as well. What do I do?

Question:
Hi. Location is Massachusetts.

My family frequents a local Wing franchise regularly. Last night I ordered delivery and when I opened the door I noticed an amazon package by the delivery boys foot. It was white with blue letters on it and a shipping label. This was 9pm so I made a strange face at the package, looked at it for a long moment, and as I looked at it the delivery boy did too. I have never seen this delivery boy before and he didn't say a word to me, just gave me my food without having me sign the receipt for it and I gave him his $5 cash tip. The entire interaction was odd.

I went inside to set the food down before going back to open the door and retrieve the package.... but the package was gone. In the single minute I went to place my food in the house, the package disappeared. I live in a 3 family apartment, my aunt lives on first floor. I told my mom to text my sleeping aunt if she was expecting a package because I think someone just stole it.

I ate my food and went to sleep. I have the delivery boys phone number. I went to check the online tracker to see if it had his name on it and imagine my shock when I see a debit card tip added to my bill there but not on any of my 3 receipts, after I already gave this punk a $5.

This lead me to check my past delivery receipts on my email and compare them to my bank statements... only to find here and there that my total would be $14.28 on my receipt (because I had not authorized a tip) but my bank shows they actually took $17.28. I NEVER tip on a card, ever. Only cash.

My mom called my aunt this morning while she was at work and asked if she was expecting a package. She said yes. My uncles amazon account said he got a delivery at 8pm last night but he couldn't find the package when he got home.

Now I have no idea what to do but boy am I pissed. My uncle is friends with the bar right next to us so we are going to see if their cameras caught the boy or his car, but otherwise I don't know where to go with this. My uncle is still sleeping. When he wakes up I will have to see what he wants to do but I am livid they are sneakily  upcharging me.

I have these photos showing all three of my receipts saying my total is $18.02 but their website saying I added a $2.24 tip on a card when I didn't.  http://imgur.com/gallery/orpo7ii

I know its only a package and a couple of dollars here and there but this isn't ok. What do I do? All of this happened on a debit card not a credit card. Do I contact my bank, do I contact the store? Do me and my uncle file police reports? Sorry if this is stupid but I'm shaken up.. Any advice helps..

I would like to post these photos of my reciept on Facebook maybe including the thief's phone number explaining what happened and telling everyone else to check their emailed receipts and bank statements too if they've ordered from here. Is that illegal?

Answer: If the package was USPS (and not UPS/FedEx), stealing it is a federal crime and should be reported to the [Postal Inspector](https://www.uspis.gov/) (not USPS customer service).Answer #2: IANAL, but I am a service industry all-star. Your “local” wing franchise has over 40 locations spanning 13 states. Call corporate.Answer #3: This same chain did that to me repeatedly while in college. Whenever I called they fixed it and refunded, but that shouldn’t be necessary in the first place. Nothing happened to those drivers, so we stopped ordering until they recently fired their drivers and switched to DoorDash.


Title: (WI) child protective services called on me

Question:
My ex wife called cps on me after I confronted her husband about hitting my son, I also have a daughter too. The claim is "extreme punishments". The cps lady called me about a week after the confrontation with the husband and we talked for a while asking what I thought were standard questions, then she said she would interview the kids and my ex wife. I never got a call back so I called and now the cps worker wants to do a home visit late next week. I feel like this is getting really dragged out for no reason. I'm missing out on weekends with my kids and i want to know if I should keep jumping through these hoops or say no to the home visit. It's not that I have anything to hide its just more time wasted.
Topic:
CPS and Dependency Law

Answer:
 I understand your frustration.  However, the reason this is taking so long is that it does appear to be an unsubstantiated allegation AND your kids are safe.  It's like you've gone to the ER with a hurt ankle: you will wait a while because you are very low in triage.  Yes, it's frustrating, but at the same time, it's good that you are not at the top of the triage charts.

Not cooperating with CPS will only make this worse, not better.  It will make you look like you have something to hide and WILL make this go on longer.  Be nice, polite, and understand that this caseworker has probably had to bump your case a few times to extricate kids from seriously unsafe situations.Answer #2: The fact that they didn't do an unscheduled visit indicates that they believe the accusation is unfounded. Make sure your house is reasonably clean, there are no obvious hazards and there is plenty of food available (yes, I know it seems silly). Cooperate with the investigation, but keep your answers as superficial as possible

I might bring up that you are concerned about retaliatory reporting and ask for CPS advice on how to deal with that situation. This serves two purposes. You hear what they expect and it makes a note that someone may be making unfounded reports against you.


Title: Airline denied my wife's boarding, any chance for compensation or can i sue them?

Question:
My wife has a greencard which was expired but extended with another paper. I accidentally grabbed a copy of the paper instead of the original when i went to mexico on vacation. Everything was fine.

However on the way back from mexico to the USA, the airline company refused to let her board.
We told them to simply call the immigration office so they could confirm that her greencard was indeed extended and that she was legal.
The airline refused to co-operate and simply denied her.

On top of that, they wrote us in as a ''No Show'' so we weren't eligible for a refund either. Even though we showed up in time and they took copies of our passports and papers etc.

The next day we went to american airlines and bought 2 tickets there. They let us board without any problems after making a phonecall.

My question is: Does western airlines owe me any money? Can i sue them for compensation? I ended up paying for 2 new tickets and a night at a hotel. But i was wondering if i could take them to a small claims court or something similar.

Answer: NAL - but I highly doubt it. They don’t HAVE to let you board. It’s not their responsibility to make sure you have the proper documentation. Now as far as listing you as a no show, I’d call the airline and have a conversation with them about it. You could possibly get it resolved that way. But still.... not their responsibility Answer #2: No. They're allowed to refuse boarding to anyone for any reason, or no reason at all.


Title: NYC: Legality of amazon.com’s identity theft policy?

Question:
Also posted in r/legal just now.

I have a very active Amazon account from which I order things a few times a week. I also have an online store and am constantly getting packages. I live in a NYC apartment with two entrances. One is a self-locking door (is always locked from the outside) – the entrance to my floor locks from the inside by turning the switch, much like a bedroom door lock. Most people leave it unlocked when they leave, so anyone could just walk in. Based on recent events, I have asked the slumlord to fix this and he says he will – if he doesn’t, I’ll be calling 311.

My Amazon account has my address including the apartment # and level on it – for example: My name, 123 Happy Way #17, Upper Level, Astoria, NY zip code.

Recently I have been getting packages that I didn’t order to “My name, 123 Happy Way, Astoria, NY zip code” (note the lack of apartment # and lack of the words “Upper level.”)

None of my packages have been stolen, although several recently have experienced week long + delays (may be relevant.) After the 3rd strange package without my apartment #, that I know I didn’t order came, now in an Amazon package (the last two were random envelopes that came through USPS), I called Amazon and gave them the tracking. I found out that someone has created an Amazon in my name with my address (minus the apartment and floor #), and a different email with my partial name in it. They have been paying for this random crap in gift cards and having it sent to me. Amazon said they couldn’t close that account bc they were in customer service, but would forward my concern to their security team, who would call me the next day.

I never got a call. A week later, I received another random crapola package (so far I’ve received an apple watch case, a vibrator, an ipad case, and a flashlight.)

I became insanely curious why someone would do this, googled it and found this article: http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2015/12/bamboozled_why_a_mystery_package_delivery_could_me.html The theory is that the scammer is sending small random stuff to me and keeping an eye on my apartment to gauge how long it takes me to pick up packages. Eventually they will start ordering more expensive items using their gift cards, and just taking the packages they ordered from my apartment- since they are ordering this stuff from a different account and email, only they get notifications when their packages arrive in my name – though I work from home so I always see and get packages fairly quickly. I assume they want all this untraceable and that they are loading their Amazon gift cards with stolen money or something similarly sketchy.

I called a detective at my local police station; he said gangs are now doing things like this instead of violence because it’s so easy for them not to be caught and they can make good money this way. They send people with no criminal history to come looking for a package, and they know they won’t really get caught. I mentioned how the apartment # is missing, and he said, “Amazon will say this is a mix up. See, they didn’t put in the apartment number. These scammers are so good at knowing how to just do enough to not get in trouble…”

I called Amazon again and was on the phone for over an hour. I was told that, because my actual account was not compromised, there was nothing they can do. I was trying to explain the rep about the scam and she totally didn’t get it, asking if I had family who could be sending me stuff. A supervisor confirmed that there is nothing Amazon can do, but did confirm it is the same account who sent those four items.

I told them that I'm pretty sure it is still illegal that someone is using my name and address without my permission, it is still identity theft, and they told me there is nothing they can do about that other account, that I should call the police.

I’ve been to the police a few months ago when my identity was stolen and they didn’t do much at all, and in this case, the detective explained that these people are pretty much impossible to catch. But shouldn’t they subpoena amazon for those account details of the scammer? I have the tracking # for the pkgs, so amazon can easily look them up.

In the meantime I have asked the LL to change locks on the door ad make sure it’s a self locking door, but I wonder if Amazon’s policy about this is truly legally sound? Is it legal for them to keep an account using my name and address open without my permission? Why did the detective think the lack of an apartment # protected the scammer somehow? Should I try a different police precinct to subpoena amazon for this account info?

Anything else I should be aware of?

And again, my own amazon account has not been compromised in any way, my password and credit card details are fine.

Sorry for long post. I just want to know what the law is, and I know I can email jeff bezos at amazon, as anyone can. But I want to know what the law is first. Thanks for reading this and thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge with me.

Answer:
 You don't have any information that the account is in your name.

I can open an account in my name and have things shipped to your address in your name without your name being associated with the account at all.

I do that all the time when I send my nephew birthday presents- that's not ID theft.


Title: My dog went to anaphylactic shock and died after getting a vaccination. Trying to figure out how to move forward with this.

Question:
I’m not really sure where to post this, I think it it’s legal advice.. Okay so two weeks ago my mom took my dog to Petco to get her usual vaccination (rabies shot) and parvo shot (orally) 10 minutes later my dog poops and throws up. And the my mom instantly runs my dogs to the vet and they give her iv all that stuff and tells my mom my dog will be fine. We go home and she gets worse and my mom and sister rush our dog to an emergency vet. Unfortunately my dog passed away, they even tired to resuscitate her but she passed away. Shortly after petco sends representatives over to talk to us. Saying they’ll pay for vet bills, necropsy and what not and they told us it’s the time this has happened in petco history.

unfortunately it was veterans Day weekend so they weren’t doing necropsies so too much time had passed and the results could come up inconclusive. So we decided to cremate her and bring her home (which petco paid for) and flash forward petco says they pay for a new dog (at first they were giving my mom a hard time about wanting a sheltie our dog that died was a purebred sheltie so my mom threatened to get a lawyer and they said okay fine) and they are paying for a sheltie and airfare to go pick it up) but they are going to make us sign some form probably saying we can’t sue them)

When my dog was getting her vaccination she said the vet said something like “wow a lot of dogs are having reactions” and is my mom thinks it’s petcos fault and that they were negligent and responsible and she said that the vet gave her two shots instead of one. I’m not sure if dogs overdose on vaccinations but the vet told us that they can’t tell on the necropsy that if she died of an overdose. The vet that treated her at the emergency vet said this sounded like a text book case of anaphylactic shock which is rare but it does happen.

A lot of people are telling my mom to sue, but she doesn’t want to sue she really just wants her dog back... this was been really sad and traumatic on my mom. She can’t sleep or eat, our dog was basically her baby and it’s been so hard on us. My sister said “we went there with a healthy dog and she left without one” and my friends think that this is definitely fishy that my friend argued that the fact that petco is giving us what we want and what not shows that they think/know that they are guilty. Also!!! Petco said the batch of the vaccination my dog got tested normal/untainted whatever.

This has been so hard on us, and we really just don’t know what to do.. we don’t know if this is a terrible unfortunate event or if this is negligence and someone should be held accountable... based on the long text that just want peoples opinion on this. I personally think this is just an unfortunate event, but  then I have my doubts since petco is trying to give us whatever we want.., but i guess that could mean that they just want to make the right since this happens under their belt? and we have a hard decision to make before we sign the form. Any input is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer:
 This is along the lines of trying to prove medical malpractice but in this case the dog (while you love them like family) is technically property. Petco is the trying to remidy the situation. They can't bring the dog back. Allergic reactions happen even if the animal has taken that medication before. The sa,e cane happen in humans.

Grieve your pet and see what Petco can offer and if that will work to fill the void.

I'm sorry for you and your family. Losing a pet is hard Answer #2: I don't think it would be in your mother's best interest to sue.  It would be time consuming, costly, and emotionally challenging.  She would have to be able to demonstrate within reason that Petco was negligent, and unless there's something left out, it doesn't seem to me that they were.

Even in a win, I'm not sure there's any damages at this point to sue over.  While they're not property to their owners, generally that's how courts attach a financial value to these things, and Petco has agreed to pay medical costs and the cost of a new dog.

When a company tries to get you agree not to sue, it's natural to think that's because they're lowballing you, but the reality is a case here would just bring bad pr for them and heartache for your mother.Answer #3: Even if they are 100% responsible they are actually already doing what they'd be forced to do if she sued: cover vet bills and the cost of a new dog.


Title: So the girl I'm seeing might be pregnant, if so her parents aren't for an abortion. How do we get one legally?

Question:
So the girl I've been seeing might be pregnant. She thinks her parents won't let her get an abortion. I'm 18 and she is 17. We live in Nebraska. What should I do if she is pregnant and we need one? How would I go about getting a judge to issue something to let her get an abortion without her parent's permission? Or would we just have to drive to another state to get it done? We aren't 100% sure she is pregnant but I just want to know our options just in case. Thanks in advance for any help!
Topic:
Medicine and Malpractice

Answer: if your state doesn't allow abortion without a parents consent, then she can just go to another state that does.  there was recently a thread regarding this topic.


Title: My [39F] Step-Son [14m] gets bullied relentlessly and the school doesn't do anything about it.

Question:
Cross posted from r/relationships:

My step son is very sensitive and also is diagnosed with aspbergers. This one kid in school picks on him every single day. It's been going on for at least a year. The kid pushes him around, calls him names, tells him to kill himself, that no one will miss him. Now my step son has been showing signs of depression and has threatened suicide. My husband has a meeting with the principal tomorrow and I am looking for some advise on how to bring this to the schools attention so they listen and do something about it.
TLDR: Step son getting bullied, looking for advice on how to handle this.

Location: USA/Minnesota

Answer:
 Have you talked to the school about it before? Who, specifically, have you talked to and what have they tried to do?

If you're going to consider legal action down the road, keep good records of who and how you've presented this to the school, what was said, etc. A contemporaneous journal of specific bullying incidents, their effect on your stepson, and the school's (non)response is helpful to keep.

Depending on the extent of your stepson's impairment, he may qualify under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act... it is possible to pursue action against the school under that framework/Sec. 1983 if the facts align. That's down the road and only if the school really stonewalls you and it has a bad effect on your son's ability to learn.

With the limited info you provided here, I'd say just be calm and straightforward in presenting what has happened and how it has impacted your stepson.

(Edit: this is a public school?)


Title: [AZ] Parents moving me to another country, I do not want to move

Question:
Throwaway because my parents know my accounts. I'm 16 living in southern Arizona. I'm a United States citizen, born and raised here.

My family is very religious and recently they caught me messaging my girlfriend of 4 months. They absolutely do not approve of me having a girlfriend and have begun threatening me of relocating me to mexico to live with family there to keep me in check.

I do not know my extended family in mexico. I barely know their names. I visited them 2 years ago and everyone in my age group indulges in criminal activity. Something particularly dangerous in that part of mexico. I don't want to move there. My entire life has been built here and i will lose everything i own.

I don't know my rights as a minor. What can i do to ensure i will not be taken away to another country?

Answer:
 If you are sent to Mexico against your will as a minor, you can return home on your 18th birthday and there's nothing your family can do to stop you. (Conversely, there's nothing they _have_ to do to help you.)

If you are unable to recover your passport from your family, [contact the US Embassy in Mexico](https://mx.usembassy.gov/) for assistance.Answer #2: You can do absolutely nothing at 16. Answer #3: I would get in check fast so they don't move you.


Title: Temporary disability, University isn't helping meaningfully. Do I have any options.

Question: [deleted]

Answer:
 What accommodation(s) do you need?

paging u/i_work_in_hied


Title: Pulled over for broken taillight, car searched and marijuana and paraphernalia found. Cook County, Illinois

Question: I was driving down a side street and came to a complete stop at a stop sign, at which a police officer was waiting. I waved him on and he drove past my car extremely slowly. He circled around the block and pulled me over. The officer came up to my window and immediately instructed me to open the door. I rolled down the window and once again, he instructed me to open the door. He went on to say that the smell of marijuana was pretty obvious, which it was, and that if we complied I would not be charged with a DUI. Choosing to take that route, I opened the door and handed over a grinder, rolling papers, and a pill bottle containing around a gram of marijuana. The officer called in another unit at this point. When the other unit arrived, myself and my 2 passengers were removed from the car, and placed under arrest for possession of marijuana and put in the back of the squad cars. The car was searched and all that was turned up besides what we had handed over was a metal container that had a few flakes of marijuana in it. The officer also confiscated two film canisters that had no trace of marijuana in them. After the search the officer began doing his paperwork and asked what my cell phone number was. I asked him why he needed it and he told me "because I'm the police." Whatever, I gave him my cell phone number. Not quite sure why he needed it. After looking at the tickets I was given I realized that the year of my car was incorrect on one of them and my drivers' license number was incomplete on another. I'm a couple months out from being 18 and this is my first offense. What am I looking at? Can I argue anything about the faulty paper work?

Answer: Do you want to argue that the faulty paperwork should get you out of the possession charges?  If so, the answer is absolutely not.  Find a local criminal defense attorney as soon as possible.


Title: Car parked within questionable distance, but definitely further than 6 ft away from hydrant. Can I beat the ticket? 4-08 (e)(2)

Question:
I can't believe I'm posting another one of these. I'm from the NYC metropolitan area and have lived in Brooklyn 2+ years. I've received 3 tickets within that time and 2 of them were given within the past 3 days. The ticket I received this morning is for parking within 6 feet of a hydrant.

I was incredibly frustrated for two reasons: 1) I was about 10-11 ft away from the hydrant 2) It took me 35 minutes find that questionable spot in the first place.

But I'm asking for advice BECAUSE the ticket doesn't say I'm within "10 feet" or "15 feet" from a hydrant. It explicitly states "6 feet from hydrant".

Unfortunately, this was several blocks away from my apartment and I had to get to work, so I was not able to bring a tape measure for further proof, but I took several photographs to prove the car isn't anything close to 6 feet.

Can I beat this? Or will they tell me, "nah you're still parked within 15 feet." OR is there a reduced fine for being within 15 ft as opposed to 6 ft?

Answer: If you were within 15' of the hydrant, you were parked illegally. It doesn't matter if you were parked 1', 6', or 14', you were still parked illegally.Answer #2: The law is that you have to be at least 15 feet away from the hydrant. You're not going to beat the ticket by proving you were within 15 feet of the hydrant even though it was 10 feet and not 6 as shown on the ticket. The violation you broke was "parking within 15 feet of hydrant" the specific number under 15 is irrelevant.


Title: Medical school administration and social media violations

Question:
Hi all,

My apologies ahead of time for the length and the ignorance[1].

I don't know much about law, my education lies in engineering and medicine.  But I do follow the popular Popehat blog, and one of the sentences in [this post](https://popehat.com/2016/04/23/a-response-to-a-critical-email-from-a-university-of-wisconsin-superior-student/) appears to capture my dilemma:

> If a public school investigates a student and threatens to impose official discipline on that student based on protected speech, it is violating that student's constitutional rights.

And yet medical schools in particular inundate their orientations with strict warnings that "social media is being monitored."  We're regularly told not to express controversial opinions or talk about politics, etc. on the internet.  [Here's a case](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/11/medical-student-says-college-censored-his-abortion-rant.html) where a US medical student was investigated and threatened with expulsion for an anti-abortion rant he published on his facebook **before he was ever admitted to the school.**  He had to work with the administration to rewrite his post, on his personal page, in order to avoid institutional action.

That's just one case.  In medical school forums across the internet it's not difficult to find stories of a classmate screencapping someone's facebook status and sending it to the administration, prompting official action from the school.

Now I'm aware that a school doesn't need to use its power of "official action," and there are ways they can strongarm us into complying with their preferences of what opinions we express online.  For instance, I don't think there's any legal recourse for a school treating your Dean's Letter like a burn notice, opining that you're a "troublemaker" and any residency who takes you will come to regret it. And of course I'm not talking about violating any sort of confidentiality associated with patients or other students.

But how is the idea of a [social media policy](http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/09/medical-students-facebook-twitter-expelled.html) prohibiting certain types of speech (about the school or any other protected speech) by students attending a public university on their personal social media accounts consistent with the First Amendment?

Thanks.

[1] Apologies ahead of time for not giving you my exact location: this is my anonymous account, and if my school found out about it there's no telling what would happen -- which is kind of the point.  I'm not in any trouble, not trying to "lawyer up" against anyone for any reason, I'm just curious.  Please let me know if I'm violating any other ordinances of the subreddit and I'll try to fix this.  I've read the wiki and the "campus" section in particular (which appears to address university rape charges exclusively) and found nothing pertaining to our situation.

Answer:
 Popehat takes an expansive view of the first amendment. Schools that have such social media policies take a more restrictive view of the first amendment.

The courts are more likely to be closer to the school's view than popehat's. See, for example, the Bong Hits 4 Jesus case that I'm sure popehat believes was horribly wrongly decided.


Title: Underage and sent nudes, boyfriend saved them and mom took his phone and refuses to delete

Question:
Okay, so I posted in /relationships and they suggested I ask here too. I am aware that my decision was stupid, and trust me, I will never do it again. I'll try to give as much information as I can, anything you say is welcome (except calling me dumb, I already know).

My boyfriend's mother took his phone and found our messages, we were talking about the eiffle tower but she scrolled up to find sexts from hours ago. She won't give his phone back and found out my boyfriend saved images from snapchat of me that are explicit and basically child porn now. She will not delete the images I sent him in case, "we decide to sue" (we being my family). I'm not sure what my family would sue for, but I desperately want those pictures deleted. Mind you, I NEVER gave permission for him to save the images, he did it through an app that saves snapchats.

Please help or give advice, I'm lost. I know I'm stupid. I feel really hurt and pretty suicidal (I have depression, I got to a therapist, I won't do anything but it doesn't stop the feelings). :(

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I don't know what to flair this, I'm sorry. I live in California.

Answer:
 You basically have two options here:

The first is to let it go. Your BF's mom is probably freaking out because her kid is in a position that could land him prison and branded for life as a sex offender. Give her some time to chill. If your parents don't know what's up you need to talk to them and everyone needs to have an adult conversation about how dumb you two were and how you're never going to do this again.

The second option is the nuclear option. Which is lawyering up and involving the cops. Shit could get very real, very fast and if you're considering it you REALLY need to talk to a lawyer first to protect yourself.


Title: (MA) Construction contractor masturbated all around my house…

Question:
Happened today

I recently hired a contractor to fix up my house and the guy pulled out his bits and started going at it…

My father was home but he was on the second floor so he didn't know what happened. Fortunately the first floor security camera caught all of the footage.

Just wanted to ask here what course of action should I take. I'm mostly fearing revenge of some sort since he knows where we live and how all the doors and windows work…

Answer:
 sounds like compulsive masturbation which is a mental disorder.

he did not do it in public or in front of anyone so indecent exposure charge would probably not stick.

just fire hire him and hopefully you did not sign any contracts with him you can't get out of.Answer #2: Also did he clean up? If he didn’t that’s a health hazard.


Title: Apartment says they can't install cameras, even fake ones for liability reasons

Question:
Today, at 6:00 am I found two young homeless kids sleeping in the gym of my apartment complex. They left a used condom on the very treadmill I wanted to use. (Yuck, but at least they're using protection).

This is only the latest in a series of symbols of insecurity at my complex. Everyone knows the gate code, gate doors are constantly propped open, and my car was broken into for the theft of a reusable grocery bag that looked like a computer bag.

I talked to the manager of my complex. He told me they just fixed the outside mailbox only to have it broken into again. I asked why they don't put up security cameras, even fake ones. He said they can't because it is a liability for them. Cops won't let them, etc. I think he's bullshitting me. This is an Equity Residential complex.

What do you all think?

Answer: I think they don't feel like paying for the installation and upkeep on cameras, and neither the law nor the lease requires them to.


Title: Flying with a medical marijuana card

Question:
Hi im going to be going on vacation with my parents soon im 18 years old and live in pa were i have a valid card we are going to florida for a week(so hyped) we are looking to fly there so what things will i expect at the airport i was going to purchese 3 or 4 cartridges at my local dispensary these are for the week in florida but will i be able to do this ?
Topic:
Consumer Law

Answer:
 You cannot being a schedule 1 drug on the aircraft.  It’s a federal crime to transport marijuana and you risk being arrested at the airport when security finds it.Answer #2: Marijuana is legal in in Pennsylvania in that State and Local police will not arrest you for it if you follow state rules. Marijuana is not legal under Federal Law, however. So, Federal law enforcement (like Postal Inspectors, FBI agents, Customs, and Airport Security) will arrest you for it.

There is no legal way to get those cartridges through airport security. The legal advice is to simply not take them. If you absolutely must have it to treat an active medical condition talk to your doctor about the legality of having a prescription moved to a Florida pharmacy, which might allow you pick up your medication for the trip at your destination but do not bring any of it back.


Title: 'Talent Agency' sent me a cease and desist for photographing someone they have a contract with.

Question: [deleted]

Answer:
 If they have an actual lawyer and if you use the images, or future images, commercially, I suppose they could try to sue you for a business interference tort.  Those are hard to prove, but it's theoretically possible.

My suggestion would be to inform the model that you received this, decline to work with her again, and move on.  No need to respond to them.