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Justia Legal Resources: Foreclosure Law Center

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The Foreclosure Law Center provided by Justia aims to illuminate what can be a complex process. Unless applicable laws or the terms of the mortgage provide a right to reinstatement, a lender does not need to permit reinstatement, but they may find this solution simpler than foreclosure. How Can You Defend Against a Foreclosure?

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Justia Legal Resources: Workers’ Compensation Law Center

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The Workers’ Compensation Law Center at Justia provides insights on how the process unfolds. Even if a business labels a worker as an independent contractor, they still are considered an employee if they meet the definition of this term under state law. Still, pursuing workers’ compensation is not always straightforward.

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Justia Legal Resources: Guide to Lawsuits and the Court Process

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The main type of remedy is damages, which is money that the court orders a defendant to pay to the plaintiff as compensation for what the defendant did wrong. This is an order that tells the defendant to do or not do something. The first is when the lawsuit raises a question of federal law.

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Justia Legal Resources: Products Liability Law Center

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The Products Liability Law Center in the Justia Legal Guides aims to illuminate this area of the law, helping injured people protect their rights. Negligence involves showing that the manufacturer or other defendant failed to use appropriate care. A plaintiff may raise both theories if state law and the facts of the case permit.

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Justia Legal Resources: Personal Injury Law Center

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The Personal Injury Law Center provided by Justia outlines this area of the law. This means that a plaintiff will need to prove four main elements: a duty of care owed by the defendant to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, causation , and damages. Here are some common questions to which it offers basic answers.

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SAD Scheme-Style Case Falls Apart When the Defendant Appears in Court—King Spider v. Pandabuy

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Redbubble and the Sunfrog cases because the defendants in those cases exhibited sufficiently more indicia of controland presented more opportunity for consumer confusion by using their own tags and labels. Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v. Schedule A Defendants My Declaration Identifying Emoji Co.

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Justia Legal Resources: Banking and Finance Law Center

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The Banking and Finance Law Center at Justia provides a detailed discussion of cryptocurrency and the legal concerns that it implicates. In addition, this section of the Justia Legal Guides covers a broad range of topics involving securities laws and banking regulations. These are often called “blue sky” laws.

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