Hot Dog Day #91 posted:

Family law attorney for the guardianship, and an immigration attorney for getting her here.

Ashcans posted:

I am not a lawyer, but I do work in immigration. If you want your sister-in-law to come to the US to live you with you, you need to get in touch with an immigration attorney and work out what needs to be done for this to happen, and you need to do this now. Not in a couple years, not when your in-laws decide that they can't manage her care any longer. Immigration can take a long loving time and you can very easily find yourself screwed if you do not plan properly.

For instance, it is possible for your wife to petition for her sister to come to the US as a Permanent Resident. However, this is the least favored group of family-based applicants. They are currently admitting people in this category who started their process in 2002.

I work primarily in business-based immigration, so it's possible there is another option available that I don't know about, given her capacity and that your sister would be functioning as her legal guardian and caretaker. But immigration is ruthless and doesn't particularly give a poo poo about exceptional cases. This is why you need to find someone to advise you about this right now, because if its a ten year process you had better get moving.

Hot Dog Day #91 posted:

Sure, the individual committed sexual battery

Pixelated Dragon posted:

The recording device is small hat compared to the rest of this. She needs to be out of there stat. Call the cops.

HalPhilipWalker posted:

She won't go to a women's shelter. She's left or planned to leave a handful of times already (I'm talking just in the past couple of months) and she always goes back. I was asking about wiretapping law because it's the one thing I thought of that I could call the cops on him for and make sure he will actually get arrested. I would have called the cops on him for choking her, but she didn't have any marks on her neck and I wasn't sure she would actually press charges. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before he kills her, and I'm worried he might kill me too (he's under the delusion that we've been loving every chance we get).

blarzgh posted:

DNova posted:

Nope. Two sentences is not enough to fully describe his issues.

Kalman posted:

Put in a camera, give it to local news station, enjoy media frenzy.

Hot Dog Day #91 posted:

You'll be back in the thread. "I cut a dying drunk's throat and helped him bleed out faster. Do I need a lawyer?"

blarzgh posted:

"Do people have a legal oblication to clal 911 if a drunk driver hits their car andis bleeding out on the side o fthe road? *Sorry, phoneposting"

joat mon posted:

Would your argument be that you were actually innocent?

joat mon posted:

Yes, but only by a preponderance of the evidence (more likely than not), but after 4 years it ratchets up to clear and convincing.

Thanatosian posted:

Because we have a laissez-faire attitude towards employee protection in this country, which works about as well as the laissez-faire attitude we had towards everything going into the Gilded Age.

Kazak_Hstan posted:

probably not illegal to grab his arm

nm posted:

Alcohol is as good as cash for lawyers. Its what they're gonna buy with the money anyhow.
In the 80s, coke worked too.

sullat posted:

Well, it's not communication

Dylan16807 posted:

Sure, fair use is allowed, but in some areas almost nothing counts as fair use by the courts' opinion. Oh, you only sampled three notes? Get hosed.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

The people who own the estates of those artists can sue depending on whether the image is actually public domain or not. Just because you haven't been caught and sued yet doesn't mean it isn't illegal, especially if your'e doing it purely for profit.

discarded box posted:

I am afraid to get a lawyer because

xxEightxx posted:

cops tell you one thing or say helping them will be better for you,

Javid posted:

72 in a 45 might be much worse than 62 in a 45. Some places have laws where, say, 25 over the limit is something like reckless driving in addition to the speeding ticket itself. Worst case, the cop tells them the truth and you go to actual jail. Consider your options carefully.

Lobsterpillar posted:

they're out of luck - the government owns the road.

Kalman posted:

gently caress those people and their self-centered bullshit.

Lobsterpillar posted:

It depends. What if you're hiring them as a wedding planner instead of as a lawyer?

KillHour posted:

Lawyers have very good imaginations.

joat mon posted:

If that wasn't gallows humor on the JAG's part, the guy's not just in the wrong line of business, but in the polar opposite wrong line of business.

DuckConference posted:

A judge is in serious trouble for ordering the tasing of a sovereign citizen:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/judge-pleads-guilty-to-ordering-defendant-shocked-with-50000-volts/

I had no idea stun cuffs existed.

Jack Gladney posted:

Do you have some experience with programming? Are you comfortable socializing with engineers? Don't mind working for defense contractors programming murder machines? It's a growth field.

Bitchkrieg posted:

I'm a new (2 months) employee at a small company in PA. I am the only employee under my boss, and since my very first day, have been subject to a wide variety of sexual harassment. My boss has been there years and is in a position of authority within the company, including being pals with the company's owner. Most of the day, we work together - alone - in our respective offices. He comes into my office to chat multiple times during the day.

Among other things, he has explicitly discussed his dick size with me, his sex life, my sex life (he asks about, and comments on, my sexual behavior), his crush on a coworker, etc. Last week he told me "Korean guys have small dicks, but it's okay because their women are sized to match...I had to break up with a Korean girlfriend because my dick was too big for her." Seriously.

Of course, there's a line between just being an rear end in a top hat and actual factual harassment. He has also expressed, repeatedly, that he hates Muslims and Asians, his desire to see humanity die, how much he despises affirmative action and feminism, how women's claims to rape are really about regret, etc.

He has repeatedly told me he thinks I'm amazing and smart, am producing great, high-quality work, and he will work with me however (pay, time, etc.) to get to where I want to be. When he asks about my sex/political/personal life, I just say "Oh yeah, hah, I don't really discuss my politics/sex/personal life in a professional environment" and leave it at that. I am trying not to encourage this, but he veers wildly off into rants and tangents with no prompting.

Basically, what can I do to legally protect myself? Or what should I be doing? My concern is reporting it to HR will lead to retaliation or a super uncomfortable (moreso than already-) work environment, plus he's so entrenched in the company that I doubt they'll do anything. PA is also an at-will employment state.

I started keeping a word document of everything he says with notes about time.
At this point, I'm holding out as long as I can before the comedy option of printing out the document, giving it to the VP, and asking for a good reference and severance package. Help.


e: the company overall has 250+ employees. The department I'm in is just my boss and me.

blarzgh posted:

When people say, "Cops just write tickets to get the revenue!" my response is, "Well, I was thinking of starting a petition to change monetary fines for traffic tickets into jail time instead, would you like to sign?"

blarzgh posted:

Every few months we have someone who asks to sit out their tickets. If you don't have steady work, and a five-thirty day vacation is an option for you, its sometimes preferable.

SkunkDuster posted:

Say Guy 1 is beating up on a girl out back of a bar. Guy 2 sees it happening and beats the hell out of Guy 1. Guy 2 ends up with an assault charge and decided to go to trial. If you are the prosecutor, what do you look for in a jury to get the conviction?

nm posted:

The sound legal advice is to keep the pistol locked, unloaded in the trunk in a box. The world isn't so terrifying that you need a gun at the ready at all times. This isn't Mogadishu.

Ur Getting Fatter posted:

Every time I read this thread I'm glad I live in a country that has nation-wide laws for these sorts of things. I don't think I could deal with this per-state, per-county bullshit.

Edit: my country is poo poo in every other aspect please don't take this post as some sort of dick-waving thing.

Ur Getting Fatter posted:

Does that really matter?

Are lease agreements really that different from one giant city to another? I get that ~~~state's rights~~~ are a big deal in the US, but in the end it usually works against the the average Joe just trying to not get hosed when renting out an apartment.

Hermsgervørden posted:

I appreciate your thoughts. I recommended to the other board members that we look to lawyer up, but no one else on the board wants to spend the money. To quote our treasurer: "We aren't being sued, and we don't want to sue anyone." Any anecdotes I can point to that might sway them? I'm outnumbered 4-1 on this. My "this could all end in expensive, adjudicated, tears" sense is tingling, but no one else's are.

Obviously the answer might be to lawyer up all on my lonesome, but unfortunately if that is the answer, I'd rather just resign from the board. I don't have that kind of budget. That would suck for me, because I care about (some) of the stuff we work on, and being on this board has actually given me a lot of chances to push for things I care about in venues I wouldn't have been part of otherwise.