A Hague tribunal found Russia breached some maritime law, awarding no damages.
Claim:
Russia won a legal case in The Hague concerning Crimea and the Sea of Azov.
SOME BS
Legal
Laws, rights, and legal claims — what actually holds up.
Only a CFTC-regulated Polymarket US venue can legally offer some event contracts.
Claim:
Polymarket is legal in the United States.
SOME BS
Familial DNA hits are investigative leads requiring confirmatory STR testing.
Claim:
Familial DNA matching cannot be the sole evidence used to establish probable cause for an arrest warrant.
NOT BS
Arrests after familial DNA leads generally hinge on probable cause, not universal pre-arrest confirmatory DNA testing.
Claim:
Before arresting a suspect identified through familial DNA searching, investigators are required to obtain and test the suspect's own DNA to confirm an exact match.
MOSTLY BS
Crime-scene DNA evidence is routinely analyzed and used without database matches.
Claim:
If a crime victim or suspect is unknown or not registered in a law-enforcement DNA database, biological evidence from the crime scene will never be considered in the investigation.
TOTAL BS
Asylum seekers in England cannot access mainstream UK welfare benefits.
Claim:
Asylum seekers in England can claim UK welfare benefits for more than one wife.
TOTAL BS
Regulation 75 covers proof of authentication and execution in transaction disputes.
Claim:
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
The lawsuit alleged Siri sometimes activated unintentionally and recorded conversations.
Claim:
Apple was sued because Siri was listening to users 24/7.
MOSTLY BS
Greek law targets illegal gambling machines, not ordinary cheating in online games.
Claim:
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
Parramatta Local Court convicted Anthony Lee Francis on 12 September 2019.
Claim:
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
Australian Consumer Law sections 259–263 set out remedies like refunds, repairs, and replacements.
Claim:
Sections 259–263 of the Australian Consumer Law provide consumer remedies including refunds, repairs, and replacements.
NOT BS
Sections 54–56 of the Australian Consumer Law set consumer guarantees on quality, fitness for purpose, and description.
Claim:
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 said she will stop defending rape cases as futile.
Claim:
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 law only mandates ICE cooperation when unlawful presence is suspected.
Claim:
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 birth certificates still use “mother” and “father,” with “parent” optional.
Claim:
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
Italian law still allows some Brazilian descendants to obtain Italian citizenship.
Claim:
Brazilian citizens can obtain Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis) under current Italian law.
HARDLY BS
The Age of Marriage Act 1929 raised the marriage age to 16.
Claim:
The Marriage Act 1949 (England and Wales) raised the minimum legal age for marriage to 16 with parental consent.
TOTAL BS
BAM Franchising, Inc. was a named plaintiff in a Utah civil lawsuit.
Claim:
BAM Franchising, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Benjamin Paul Schneider ("Reckless Ben") and other defendants.
NOT BS
Mario Olszinski was convicted in 2023 for acquiring, disseminating, and possessing child pornographic material.
Claim:
Mario Olszinski was convicted of possessing child sexual abuse images.
HARDLY BS
Proposition 19 narrowed inherited-property tax exclusions, triggering reassessment for many heirs.
Claim:
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
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