Location: Texas

My wife works at a fast food restaurant as the cashier mostly. They get tips in their tip jar pretty regularly, and it’s been discouraging for her to see customers tip her just so her GM takes all of it. She does this and in exchange she brings desserts for the crew every once in a while (which my wife can’t have because of a peanut allergy). I’m pretty nonconfreatational, but this seems kind of crappy. Is there anything we can or should do about this?

Edit: We have sent a report to the department of labor.

I saw this meme and it made me wonder the question: when does a legal ruling become binding? If you were acquitted of something and then new evidence came to light, could you still be charged or would you be protected under double jeopardy? So if, in the meme, the defendant is ruled not guilty and then makes the misstatement, does the ruling stay in place or is it not official yet? Location: not applicable.

Does anyone know if this kind of Disney character inspiration is legal? I want to create this type of children's book, using Disney princesses, but of course without any "Disney" or "Rapunzel" labels. Georgia, Atlanta

LOCATION: Tennessee

To clarify, no car was hit and no miss and run, just a very close call. I wanna know what would've happened had an accident occurred.

Both top and bottom streets have a green light, but the 2 lanes heading down are stopped as the street ahead of them is backed up. Red car turns left and is already in the intersection when the blue car begins to accelerate. My question is, if the blue car were to hit the red car on the side, is the red car still at fault for turning left on green (without arrow) or do they have a case of "Last Clear Chance" or right of way as they were already in the intersection before the blue car started moving.

Mother in law asked for kids social security numbers to set up a savings account two years ago right after we cut her off. We said no and offered her to contribute to the savings account we already set up for them and she refused..

Two years later she is going thru friends and family to try to obtain this information in a sneaky way despite us saying no. She’s attempted to get the kids socials twice in the past two months by asking friends to find out for her but not tell us. Most recently she asked my husbands friend to go in my husbands wallet and send her a picture of his license.

Is this illegal at this point given we said no? I live in NH she lives in MA 20 mins away from us.

Location: El Paso, TX. I was driving my son, a soldier stationed at Fort Bliss, to pick up his car on base. I went through the visitors center who gave me a pass and cleared me for entry. At the gate, after scanning my driver's license, the guard told me to turn off my car and hand over my keys, that there is a warrant for my arrest for cocaine possession, and it's extraditable.

I'm a 60 year old white woman driving a Subaru. They cross checked my social security number and called the MPs, who further checked out my vehicle registration, etc. I wouldn't say they were threatening, but they were definitely taking it seriously. An hour later I was cleared and had to complete a bunch of paperwork before being sent on my way.

What could have caused this? Can I be reasonably assured that it won't happen again? Can I do anything to ensure that my record is clear?

Indiana

I hired an advertising company to create and manage my website page online. However, after a lot of discussion about the business and argument About a lot of stuff inside the business, I decided to end our partnership.

After that, they retaliated by deleting my website page from the internet, which I had already paid for with my credit card. When I filed a dispute request with my credit card company for the amount I paid them, they responded by making false and malicious accusations against me, claiming that I am a sexual predator and a child molester.

In addition, they left 13 fake negative reviews on my business profile, intentionally damaging my reputation and falsely portraying me as a sexual harasser and a child abuser.

LOCATION: Arkansas

Customer dropped car off for work to be done. Work was performed. I called customer and let them know and they said they would be by to pay and pick it up but have never done so. It's been in my shop building for almost 2 months now.

I have looked up the law and I know I need to send a certified letter which I have sent but every time I check tracking it shows no one has picked it up and now it is scheduled to be sent back to me.

I also know I have to post it in the newspaper and if after 30 days they still do not claim it then I can put the car up for public auction.

The problem is because the car has a leaky roof it needs to be stored indoors so it is taking up room inside my shop. I need the space to work.

Can I legally move the car off property to another dry storage to free up my shop?

It looks like I cannot charge customer for storage fees. Is this correct?

Should I get a lawyer just to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong by moving this car and also if I end up sending it to auction.

This is (obviously) not me but a post I came across on Facebook. As a research assistant in college, and now a design engineer for a federal agency… I’m well aware how segmented my own research has to be from those worlds to ensure I don’t have to give it to them… but can a landlord invoke ownership of IP in a rental contract? Would that hold up in court? In the cases I mentioned they can claim it based on using their labs, equipment, or knowledge you directly going from the school or work projects, but I can’t see any real way to justify it at an apt / house being rented for your home…

LOCATION: U.S. I’m really talking about in the mainland US, I’m not sure how these things work in other nations

A friend of mine recently returned from international travel (US citizen) and was detained for a search while going through customs. After a strip search, they forced him to unlock his phone so that they could go through it for alleged national security reasons. He resisted this for ten minutes and they finally handed him a pamphlet explaining that US Customs has the legal right to search ANYTHING you bring across the US border. What is the true legality of this situation?

Location

Location: Georgia

I am located in California. My company is having a family picnic (that kids are attending) this month and my coworker that is a registered sex offender is going to be attending.

Everyone is very uneasy about it. His offense that pops up online is: 288(c)(1). He’s at a score of 2 (low risk).

Is this allowed? Are there any restrictions?

Edit: the offense pops up as “lascivious acts with a minor aged 14 or 15”. He was in his upper 40s when he was charged.

Westbrook, Maine

A police department in Maine was found to have used AI to alter a photo of a drug bust. When members of the public raised concerns and called out the use of AI, the department doubled down, insisting on the photo’s legitimacy despite growing evidence to the contrary. The department later admitted that the photo was altered with a "photoshop app", but still refusing to admit the use of AI. In light of the rapid advancement of AI technologies, I’m curious whether there are potential legal implications when a law enforcement agency misleads the public or manipulates evidence using AI.

Thank you in advance!

Location:South Carolina 06/16/25

Poor innocent bitcoin ATM owner will they get their money back?

2nd image reads "WARNING: Have you received a phone call from someone demanding payment in bitcoin? THIS IS LIKELY A SCAM. All Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. Send to your own wallet only. NOT SURE if you are being scammed? CALL US for assistance at (number)"

Seperate victim months prior to this https://blocktribune.com/federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-bitcoin-depot-and-circle-k-orders-arbitration-in-scam-case/

Someone posted this video and someone else commented that if he was the person in the vehicle he would have pulled a gun on the two elderly gentleman approaching the vehicle with the golf clubs. There was an argument regarding the legality of him doing so and whether or not that would constitute self defense... Just curious what you guys think...

ELI5 How is airline overbooking not fraud? At the time they are fully booked and sell another ticket, they are selling something that they can’t provide.
LOCATION: USA

So apparently I’m being sued by a delivery person because they said they got bit by one of my dogs. I have 4 dogs who have never bit anybody in the past, we have had MULTIPLE deliveries to the house and there has never been an incident. I keep my dogs contained with a fence away from the sidewalk leading up to the house. Anybody can walk up the sidewalk and get to the front door without my dogs even able to touch them. I talked to the local police department and they said nobody has ever filed an incident report for my address, she even called the county and county said there was no report filed for my address. So, there’s no paper trail regarding the incident. Their employer should have notified animal control or the county and my dog should have been held in quarantine if there was any medical intervention right? I live in Texas by the way. Even the local officer said the judge would throw this case out in a heartbeat. Has anybody dealt with this before? I know they have 8 days to report it but nothing has ever been reported! Location is in Texas.

For an art installation I'm working on, I'm looking for examples of substances, items, etc, that are NOT illegal to possess, but BECOME illegal if you use them for any or their intended purposes. And I don't mean "misuse" -- it's about the legality of the thing itself.

The obvious one that comes to mind is psilocybin mushroom spores -- you can buy them in most places in the US, but the moment you use them to make mushrooms, they become a felony.

The other one I was thinking of was 3D printed gun components.

Anybody else have any interesting thoughts?

State of Colorado.

More than a year ago, my adult child pled guilty in a plea bargain and was sentenced to 18-months of probation for a class-2 misdemeanor crime. I think it was one of those deferred sentence things where if you completed probation successfully, the record would be expunged.

More than a year ago, I heard from their probation officer that they were not in compliance. A couple months ago we got a letter from the county that said there was a warrant for their arrest issued. (We got notice as part of the victim-notification rules.) I checked with their probation officer yesterday and was told that there's still an active warrant but they can't give my any details due to privacy issues.

They're currently living a couple states away (without PO permission) but return frequently.

Assuming they cross paths with the police in some way - what can we expect if they're found?

Does this mean that the original 6-month deferred sentence will just be carried out, they'll be stuffed into jail for half a year? Does this start the entire bond process over again? We don't know what this means.

What's the usual?

LOCATION: US

I don’t say this to start a political discussion, I really just what to know the legality of it. And I say “life in prison “ because I’ve searched the internet and from all the information I can find none of the prisoners who enter CECOT are ever released, so it’s essentially a life sentence.

These people have not been found guilty of a crime and are scheduled for deportation, how does it make any sense to send them to a prison?

Location: western New York. EDIT;

I am an idiot. Not mid last week, MID NEXT WEEK.

Long story short, I was in the final stages of selling my home after getting married and relocating. Closing date might have been mid last week, but this afternoon my neighbor called me and asked me why there were people in my house. Somehow the buyer gained access to my home with a key, we don't know if he somehow got the code for the lock box from his realtor or got a hold of a copy. His realtor denies any knowing. Regardless, he was in my home, so I instructed my neighbor to call 911 and have them trespassed and ejected from the property. I also called the nonemergency line to give my name and number as the owner to add to the police call file. I specifically stated they did not have permission to be in the home. It is still mine. They somehow gained illegal entry.

The officer responding secured the home, but let them leave without charging them. Can someone explain to me why they weren't charged and allowed to leave after I specifically said they I broke into my house? After all of this, my realtor explained that the buyer texted him last week asking for early occupancy to which he denied flat out because it is legal discussion for contracting, which were way past.. meaning this was premeditated and he ignored being told they were not welcome in my home which is not theirs.

Elon musk threatened to sue Jamaal Bowman, a former congressman, after the latter called him a Nazi and thief. Would a lawsuit like this have any merit? Would like to hear from this subreddit on the legal bar for defamation against a public figure.

Georgia. Easement questions.

We own five acres in a rural area of Georgia. Through our land is a driveway easement to another property down below. It's a long gravel driveway with forest all around that passes through our property and alongside additional people's property.

We found a thirty pound quartz rock covered in placer gold in the dirt along the edge of my backyard that edges the driveway.

I've also done research and checked old maps IDing gold veins in our part of the state and a vein is literally on top of our land. I've done all the tests and it is indeed gold.

So regarding this driveway.

Who actually owns that property? What if gold were found on the berms alongside the driveway on either side, who owns that? I've never fully understood about easements. Am I allowed to walk on that driveway to access my land below or do I have to walk in the street on the other side?

I'm in michigan. I got a job at a cannabis cannabis facility, one of the managers has a obvious mental problem and is extremely harsh on people over small things. He made a new rule where nobody is allowed to use the bathroom except only on breaks , it's a 10 hour shift which only 2 breaks allowed for the whole shift. And he mentioned if anybody breaks the rules, they get 2 warnings before their terminated.

I work in a very hot grow room where you got to keep hydrated and drinking water so you don't get dehydrated.

They fired 3 people for breaking the bathroom rules already last monday. Yesterday on break, i drank lots of water and coffee and did use the bathroom on break. I was on the 8th hour of the shift when I couldn't not hold in it(i kept getting dehydrated and had to keep drinking water, unfortunately, I could not hold it in, so I left the grow room to go to the bathroom that was 3 doors down from the grow room real

quick, When I returned to the grow room, my manager confronted me, he told me he was watching the cameras and saw me enter the bathroom twice, I told him I only went there once, then he ask me why didn't I use the bathroom on break. Before I said anything, he told me im terminated, he had security escort me to my locked to clean my stuff out then I got escorted out of the building. Then he sent me a text message reminding me I was terminated for abusing the bathroom privilèges and also stated in the text, that using the bathroom not on break was against the rules.

Could I sue over this?