Legal
Laws, rights, and legal claims — what actually holds up.
Asylum seekers in England can claim UK welfare benefits for more than one wife.
TOTAL BS
Regulation 75 of the United Kingdom Payment Services Regulations 2017 states that a payer is protected when a payment was made because the payer was deceived or induced into making it, regardless of whether the payment was authorized.
TOTAL BS
Apple was sued because Siri was listening to users 24/7.
MOSTLY BS
In Greece, a person can be sentenced to six months in prison for cheating in online games on Steam, PlayStation Network, or Xbox Network.
TOTAL BS
On 12 September 2019, the Parramatta Local Court convicted Anthony Lee Francis and fined him AUD 70,000 for seven offences under the Home Building Act 1989 (NSW) and two offences under the Australian Consumer Law.
NOT BS
Sections 259–263 of the Australian Consumer Law provide consumer remedies including refunds, repairs, and replacements.
NOT BS
Sections 54–56 of Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (the Australian Consumer Law) establish consumer guarantees including acceptable quality, fitness for purpose, and correspondence with description.
NOT BS
Cai Yaqi, a well-known criminal defense lawyer, has publicly announced that she will no longer take rape cases because she cannot win them.
HARDLY BS
Mississippi state agencies are legally required to report transgender people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if their identification documents list a sex different from their sex assigned at birth.
TOTAL BS
New York State enacted a law that removed the terms "mother" and "father" from New York State birth certificates and replaced them with gender-neutral parental labels.
TOTAL BS
Brazilian citizens can obtain Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis) under current Italian law.
HARDLY BS
The Marriage Act 1949 (England and Wales) raised the minimum legal age for marriage to 16 with parental consent.
TOTAL BS
BAM Franchising, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Benjamin Paul Schneider ("Reckless Ben") and other defendants.
NOT BS
Mario Olszinski was convicted of possessing child sexual abuse images.
HARDLY BS
California Proposition 19 (approved in 2020) changed California rules for inherited property in a way that often causes reassessment of a property's value for California property-tax purposes.
NOT BS
L'Oréal's CeraVe brand is facing one or more lawsuits alleging that certain CeraVe products contain benzoyl peroxide.
HARDLY BS
The draft King V Code on Corporate Governance for South Africa emphasizes plain language and accessibility.
NOT BS
A U.S. federal law will soon require U.S. automakers to install in-vehicle infrared biometric cameras and other driver-monitoring systems that scan drivers' body language and track eye movements to detect driver impairment from alcohol intoxication or fatigue.
MOSTLY BS
In California, 20% of handicap (disabled parking) placard use is fraudulent.
MOSTLY BSNo checks match that verdict.