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Law school was already not required to sit the bar exam in Washington State. See https://www.wsba.org/for-legal-professionals/join-the-legal-... .

This type of license is generally required for a service to operate. They could scope it more carefully, but there is nothing _necessarily_ underhand going on here. > By posting Co…

I've been using Chartist for the last couple of years for line charts. The ability to style with CSS has been a useful benefit. For example, I have dark/light mode just by setting …

> The US is the most deregulated, pro-market, capitalist developed nation of size Well, here in the US, I still buy electricity from the government. Consumer energy deregulation in…

That's not true for all civil cases, though. The Seventh Amendment says, "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by …

At the founding, the Constitution documented all the things that were going to be different, but courts were intended to continue to apply the rest of the common law as it was. So,…

Subletting isn't an agency relationship. It's not like tenants provide a service to landlords by occupying the property as well as paying rent. Also, the law around real property i…

That's not quite how it works. In practice, in the US, liability comes not so much from giving a positive or a negative review, but from giving an incomplete one. This is most appa…

Agreed. I think it's very likely that a ban would be upheld against a Free Exercise challenge (even though at least one lower court did strike such a proposal down on this ground).…

I'm not sure what point you are making here. Presumably your obvious answer is "yes"? For example, there are indeed some states that outlaw tattooing minors (although many states d…

In most states in the United States, the notion of consent in the employment context is very different than, say, European privacy law. In European law, consent from an employee is…

I'm not sure it's that bad. It's still the law in the United States that you cannot claim a religious exemption to a (state) law of general applicability. If the law applies to eve…

The law here is not completely developed. The US Supreme Court has not ruled on the extent to which electronic devices of a US person may be searched at a border. In practice, cour…

I don't know about German law specifically, but damages can be shown in a variety of ways. In the US, courts have recognized publishers of open-source software as receiving value f…

That's what ECPA says, but the Fourth Amendment does apply to e-mails as well as ECPA. Today, pretty much no significant commercial e-mail provider is going to give up e-mail conte…

> Nothing regulates the latter That's not true. The Stored Communications Act _does_ regulate this. In fact, it was passed in response to concerns that the third-party doctrine wou…

Well, it's not like was only just added. It's been in browsers for over a decade. It was in Firefox 4. Even IE10 supported datalist.

When the time between releases is measured in years you better be sure that new features are somewhat stable before you ship, especially when customers take a long time to upgrade …

We shipped an update to the IE11 WebGL implementation to developers today as part of Windows 8.1 Update. We will roll this out to all IE11 users through Windows Update starting nex…