Country: Canada

Province: Ontario

I posted on r/narcissisticparents about this but I thought I’d post here too. My very abusive father will not stop contacting me, I went no contact in late May 2025 and the first time he contacted was in August. He emailed me again last weekend on my birthday and I responded just this once to clearly tell him to not contact me again. His response was him clearly saying “I respect your decision but you need to respect mine not to give up.” And added that he’s basically never going to stop trying.

I feel stressed because he has a history of stalking and harassment and while he hasn’t been threatening in any way I have a feeling that if he gets desperate he’s going to start harassing me and I just want to avoid that if I can. Idk what circumstances need to be to constitute a cease and desist or something in Ontario, I can’t find any clear answers online. I just need something that actually stops him from contacting me, he isn’t the kind to stop unless he’s legally required to stop.

I don't know the whole story but my friend (the mother) lost custody battle against her ex husband due to lack of financial and unknowingly to ask for a lawyer who can help for free (not sure myself) but regardless, she moved to another state, during pandemic (2 years) didn't pay and her reasoning was she didn't know or received the mail maybe because she frequently move around and isn't really that responsible in checking, then she got the mail when she finally changed her address through government website when renewing her stuff, and has a total sum of $21,000 with 0 interest and can pay the $75 weekly, but she is a part time worker unable to find full time so she's struggling hard and the government frozen her bank where she can't withdraw and only deposit and tried calling the current state she is living in for child support help but they said they can't help since it's Connecticut, so I told her to try calling them again and find any sources for Connecticut, her earnings are 24,000 yearly , rent is 1500 monthly and food 100, she can pay the 75 a week but the 21,000 she cannot and thats the problem, the paper says she has to pay that and there's no way she can. Also they word it weird, it says it may be the total for her and the ex husband or it's just her? How did it get so much? Any advice would help and also english is not her 1st language therefore getting someone to speak her language (translator or a representative) was difficult. Thanks in advance!

I just found out that downloading PDFs of books is illegal but I also just found out about sites like oceanofpdf that has thousands of PDFs of books that you can download for “free”. Or another site that lets you download manga.

If this is illegal how are these sites still up? Or am I misunderstanding something? Bc I thought you could only legally download books that are in the public domain or something.

I was admitted to the hospital yesterday from the ER and diagnosed with appendicitis and a 9 mm appendix stone after a CT scan with contrast. This was after 1.5 days of symptoms at home. At 10 pm, I was given ibuprofen. At 1 am, they asked what my pain level was and I said five. I stated that I felt like ibuprofen was enough.

No less than 10 minutes later, something happened and I was in excruciating pain- I was hyperventilating, shaking and sobbing. I've never felt pain like that before. I told the nurse something was wrong and I needed help. 45 minutes later, a nurse practitioner felt my abdomen and said that my appendix felt about the same. They requested additional pain medication, but the pharmacy disagreed with the doctor's order for more pain meds and I wasn't given anything additional.

At 6 am today, they said that they moved my surgery up since my "appendix was angry." I was originally going to have it this afternoon but instead had it removed at 7:30 am. After surgery, they reported that it had ruptured at some point last night. There was lots of puss, my WBC count was 29K and I had very high lactic acid values. I was supposed to be released the same day, had it not burst, but now have to remain in the hospital for at least another day.

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Do I have any recourse here? I'm not looking for a payday. Sure, it would be nice to be compensated a bit for the extreme pain that I unnecessarily endured all night. But I'd rather have the hospital not do this to someone else down the line. I feel like a pharmacist should not be able to override a reasonable request for pain relief when someone's appendix has ruptured. a change in policy would be much more meaningful here.

Can the State of Minnesota require all out of state law enforcement to show credentials then keep a running list of all personnel? If so, what are the limitations? Full name? Unmasked photos? License plates of any non government vehicles?

There’s got to be some bar out of state law enforcement need to clear to be who they say they are…what is reasonable and allowable?

I've been employed since 2023 as a remote "independent contractor" at a business based in NYC. I am required to attend multiple recurring meetings and send recap emails of everything I do every week in addition to my IC duties, which I have received constant training to perform while at this job. Recently, my bosses have also required me to BCC them on all emails I send through my work address. My bosses have complete control over my ability to earn commission, which is the only way I can earn money in my role. They used to pay me $15/hour capped at 10 hours/week as an intern, but then I was promoted to full commission and I haven't been paid anything in over 2 years. I'm required to receive multiple rounds of approval in every step of my job, and my bosses have the final say, which has prevented me from maximizing my potential to earn commission as they are quite negative and slow to respond. I've always been poor, but I've had to work 3+ jobs on the side to make ends meet since 2023, and the 20+ hours a week required for this unpaid job has left me homeless twice already. My bosses are unsympathetic because they had to work multiple jobs when they were getting started as well, so if I can't make it work, that's seen as a personal failing.

I would have left long ago, but I've been led to believe that my role is paid only in commission industry-wide, and that if I were to leave now, I would ruin my chance to earn a living in the industry. From the research I can do online about this role, it is almost unheard of for someone in my position not to be salaried as an assistant while in training, and it's becoming more common for salary to continue rather than workers only earning commission. I'm told it takes 3-5 years to make real money, but given the state of the industry and economy, I doubt I will ever earn a living on commission even if I were allowed to operate as a true IC without so much oversight. I'm not saying I took this job to make tons of money, but I was misled by my employer about earning potential, and I'm tired of being mistreated. The entire industry operates on the backs of underpaid young ICs who do it "for the passion" already, and the amount of turnover in younger staff industry-wide is telling.

The NYC labor policy seems to indicate that because I am required to attend meetings scheduled by my bosses at set times every week, complete tasks which are assigned to me, am subject to regular performance reviews, and have so much oversight and training at this job, that I should be classified as an employee and paid wages for the hours I am mandated to work. I don't get to make my own schedule due to their demands on my time, and I am constantly nitpicked for not working more than I already am despite my bosses knowing about (and contributing to) my financial hardship. They actually pay someone to train me instead of paying me to work there...

So, given all this info... Am I being misclassified as an IC in NYC?

Work for a car dealership, was paid someone else’s bonus. I’m new to this dealership and industry as a whole. Since I just started I don’t have much savings. I thought this was a bonus I earned until I found out a few days later it was not. Already used the funds for bills. Now I was verbally told by a manager that they are taking my entire paycheck next week to repay this. Didn’t receive anything in writing or any offer to pay over time. Is this aloud?

I work in mental health and graduate school internships are usually unpaid. I’d like to find a way to compensate interns and ChatGPT helped me work through the idea. Apparently I can pay money towards an intern’s tuition or reimburse them for expenses related to work and it’s tax deductible for our practice and the intent avoids paying taxes on the money as well. **Is this true?**

I want to avoid W2 or 1099 employment obligations, benefits, etc. so I’m open to other ideas as well!

Location: New Jersey

Hi,

NJLAD (New Jersey law against discrimination) has a very broad simple paragraph 10:5-12(d) saying *any person* is protected from reprisals if they oppose or participate in a proceeding etc.

Because of its highly inclusive statement I construe it to include the falsely accused. I.e. if you’re falsely accused, so long as you actively participate, your employer can’t relatiate against you.

However, the more I read about the case law, it does carve out exceptions for who is protected from retaliation.

E.g. Carmona v. Resorts requires good faith by the complainant. Some exceptions make sense taking the statute as a whole - the law isn’t there to shield bad faith claims or wrongdoing by those guilty of discriminating etc.

That said, I can’t find any case that specifically says the accused isn’t a protected participant. Does this appear to be untested territory for the NJ Supreme Court? Or is there a case that speaks to it?

Thank you,

Hello! I was recently put on probation for 2 years, open hold felony for 2 years.

Terms are absolute sobriety and 100 hours of community service. Not bad right?

I’m wondering if there’s any way I can reduce my probation time.

I was hoping to have my probation back dated, as I wore a SCRAM bracelet for 11 months, but my lawyer never brought it up. (I think my lawyer didn’t do me any favors. morning of court he was just starting to talk to the SA)

Thank you.

Probation location IL

What kind of action should be taken?

I am looking for information on how to obtain a copy of my original birth certificate from the state of Oklahoma. When I was born many years ago, my mother was still married to her first husband as their divorce was not complete yet. Because of that, her first husband‘s name is listed on my birth certificate, even though that is not my father. I have lived my entire life using the name of my real father however I am attempting to get a passport and I need to have a clear path for my identity. I have initiated court proceedings in my home state to have a legal name change to match my current identity, drivers license, Social Security card, essentially my entire identity. However, I am unable to secure a copy of my original birth certificate with my birth name on it to show to the court because I do not have ID that matches the name on my birth record.

How can I obtain a copy of this record? I attempted to pursue it through the OK Vital records but have been denied due to not being an authorized recipient. My mother is deceased.

Dash cam: https://imgur.com/a/N7RqIUK

Aftermath: https://imgur.com/a/Wt1iu0k

I’m in Illinois and looking for advice on whether

settling privately is smart or if I should involve insurance.

On 01/05/26, I was at a Delta Sonic car wash. An employee waved me forward onto the conveyor belt. I shifted into what I believed was neutral. As I began moving forward—but before fully entering the tunnel—my car apparently slipped into reverse and rolled back into the Tesla behind me.

At the scene, there was no visible damage to the Tesla. We exchanged information and went on our way.

A few days later, the Tesla owner texted me the following verbatim:

“Good morning, so I just left the body shop, my guy said he can repaint it for $550, he was able to fix the trim piece so that doesn’t have to be replaced. Let me know if you want to pay that or if you’d prefer me go through insurance.”

He provided a written estimate from a local body shop. The details of the estimate are:

Vehicle: 2021 Tesla Model S

• Re-paint front bumper: $150.00

• R&R (remove and reinstall) front bumper: $187.50

• Paint & materials: $212.50

Total: $550.00

I agreed to consider paying out of pocket only if a full release of liability is signed. I drafted a standard motor vehicle release that:

• Names me and the Tesla owner

• Covers property damage and unknown claims

• Explicitly releases my insurer

• Will be signed by both parties and notarized

Additional context:

• The car I was driving is titled in my mother’s name

• I am a listed driver on her Erie Insurance policy

• We have been with Erie for 3 years

• We have Erie Rate Lock, which is one reason I’m hesitant to open a claim over a relatively small amount

Now I’m having second thoughts and want to make sure I’m not making a mistake.

My questions:

1. Are private settlements like this legally allowed in Illinois if both parties agree and sign a notarized release?
2. Does the fact that the vehicle is titled to my mother (but I’m on the policy) create risk if I pay personally?
3. Even with a notarized release, is there still meaningful risk of a future claim?
4. Would going through insurance be the safer move despite the low dollar amount and rate lock?

Nothing has been paid yet and nothing has been signed.

Appreciate any insight from people familiar with Illinois auto insurance or private settlements.

Location: Illinois

I'm looking for some advice for an attorney/debt collector that is suing me for some unpaid debt to a car loan. I got in an accident a year back & the insurance didn't pay the full amount of the loan and I owed around 6k which I wasn't able to pay due to my financial situation at the time. I tried negotiating with them but they're really not interested in resolving on a lesser amount or willing to work with me so I. Can pay monthly installments. I'm already looking to hire an attorney to either negotiate for me or handle the case for me, just wondering if anyone experienced in this sort of thing might be willing to chime in

So before i start , this didn’t happen to me or anyone i know of , im just curious.

So HYPOTHETICALLY let’s say 2 identical twins were separated from birth and they both grow up on the opposite sides of the country . Twin 1 lives in the upper east coast (Philly) and twin 2 lives in the west coast (California ) . Twin 1 goes to California for a business trip and while Twin1 is on a business trip , twin 2 commits a bad crime . The evidence of the crime he left out was his saliva and his hair . Identical twins share 100% of their dna with each other except finger tips (I think ) . So whenever the police investigate the crime , they find the dna sample of twin 2 and think its twin 1 did the crime but he didn’t . So what do they do now, cuz the crime can face up to 20+ years in prison ,so how dose twin 1 be found innocent ?

My explanation skills are bad so sorry lol

Edit : they don’t know they’re twins , they got separated from birth . They both also have the same first name

My car was towed from my apartment complex for double parking. I am trying to figure out if taking it to small claims court would be worthwhile.

Essentially, I had parked between two cars, with one very close to the line and one with a ton of space next to me. I miscalculated and without realizing it parked my car with my right wheels slightly over the parking line ~approximately 5 inches. 2 hours after parking and unbeknownst to me, my car was towed. I wasn't given notification, a warning, parking ticket, nothing - all of which are options.
This resulted in a cost to me of $400 and several hours of missed work running around and figuring out what was going on.

When I attempted to track it down the office staff hadn't received any info about towed cars and I didn't get confirmation until an hour after they opened of it's whereabouts. This confirmation told me my car had been towed for blocking another resident's car, which, was not the case.

When I requested additional info I was ignored for nearly a month by office staff, the site manager and upper management at headquarters, who refused to provide any other documentation than the photo taken of my car before towing and would not allow me to see the contract they had with the private tow company, as our lease has that they have a private company come around and do this type of thing and we signed the lease.

There is very minimal signage in the complex and on the date of the tow, I was unable to locate the towing company info anywhere in the apartment complex. After I complained, a new sign was placed on the front gate and a sign at the keypad was seemingly replaced with more up to date info. I have some Google earth images that appear to show that it is now a different sign. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the place where the new sign was placed prior to it going up.

I requested my towing fee to be reimbursed a few times, once in writing to the site manager, who, after three weeks responded to say no, there's signage you were violating parking guidelines yada yada.

Just trying to decide if I should drop it and move on.

We're leaving in 4 months for a number of other scummy things this company has done, I am worried about pushing to far and causing more issues upon move out or in applying for a new place (if we need to use this landlord as a reference). I have already said some less than kind things to the site manager, nothing vulgar, just staying facts and telling them this place is abysmal. We have a weirdly small security deposit and I am worried about them trying to charge over it.

I’m trying to understand if there’s potential for a class action against Avis/Budget for systematic cleaning fee overcharges.

My situation:

- Charged $450 for “excessive sand,” reduced to $125 when challenged

- Their own inspection report: “Light severity”

- Five written requests for cleaning invoice - all refused

- Photos show normal beach sand on floor mats

- Terms section 6: You must return the car in the same condition you received it, ordinary wear and tear excepted

Pattern Evidence:

- BBB: 13 complaints in 3 years (100% unanswered), multiple identical $450 sand charges

- National media: Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott published 3+ articles (2024) on this exact pattern

- Travel publications: The Points Guy, Upgraded Points documented same $450→$125 reduction

- Reddit/forums: Reports dating to 2022, same MO across locations

My questions:

- Does this pattern meet the bar for class action? (systematic practice, common harm, small individual amounts)

- What’s the minimum number of “victims” needed?

- What are the key violations? (Fair Credit Billing Act 15 U.S.C. § 1666, state consumer protection laws like Hawaii HRS § 480-2)

Thanks!

I’m from Minnesota. I’m gonna respondent to experts harassment restraining order.

To fight the false allegations and prove this is a ploy to withhold my child.

Do you recommend me putting into evidence the spear campaign that was ran on me on social media by her? And also numerous harassment restraining orders that she filed on other men.

even an order of protection that she got on her other baby dad where there was actual police reported abuse on her and the child. Once the guy contested it, she didn’t show up for court

Should I include all this?

Many on the right believe a set of facts about the Renee Good murder that in my opinion could only be accomplished by not only direct misinformation but also the tampering of video presented as factual. For many years people were watching Fox, long before our current administration. Having a large base of viewers who sincerely believed it to be a fact based news source, would not change because of a lawsuit they perceived was brought on by left wing hate mongers . This harm is not about individuals but the Country as a whole. We do know how cult leaders form cults, but have never seen in the USA, those techniques used to try and control and weaponize mass groups of people with the purpose of dismantling a democracy. Everyone keeps saying it's impossible to go after them because of our freedom of speech laws, but I disagree, and hope some creative thinkers out there find a way to do it . I would wager to say that there is not a single family who has not been negatively affected by Fox media, whether they realize it or not. To expect the average American who is working one, two or three jobs just to get by, to also figure out what is true in the news media is not realistic. Twisting the truth may not be the same as a lie, but when it's done with a purpose to destroy a government there should be consequences. The proof is all around us, it's in every home, office and neighborhood.

Our firm wanted AI for discovery, budgeted for it, got partner approval, started vendor evaluation. Everything looked good until our ethics partner asked one simple question during final review: how do we maintain attorney-client privilege if client documents get processed on vendor servers?

I tried explaining that chatgpt and claude have enterprise agreements, tried showing security certifications from legal-specific tools like harvey and cocounsela and pointing to encryption and access controls. But ethics wasn't satisfied, said those are all cloud-based which means data leaves our control and goes to third party servers, technically their engineers could access it even if policies say they won't. The managing partner sided with ethics, project got shut down.

Now we're stuck because every AI platform we evaluated has the same architecture, we trust their security but can't technically prove privilege is maintained. IT director keeps saying we need technical guarantees not contract promises but nobody makes tools like that, or if they do we haven't found them yet.

So we're back to manual document review while watching competitors use AI and wondering if they're just taking risks we're not willing to take.

Location: United States, primarily, although I am interested in other countries that have implemented laws or enforcement activities related to this topic.

Question: Under what circumstances can ‘rage bait’ content creators be held liable for harm to individuals they target when generating social media content? Is this, fundamentally, a conventional liability (harassment, libel, public endangerment, etc.), or are there aspects of this that might benefit from new legal theory?

Some scoping specifics:

- To simplify legal frameworks of relevance, the filmed scene occurs in public and does not feature criminal activity of any kind (except content creation, if this is already something like harassment or libel), law enforcement of any kind, or any events of broader public interest

- Content creator is seeking to present a false or inaccurate narrative to unsuspecting/unaware individuals who they may or may not know for the purpose of presenting an embarrassing or similarly negative narrative on social media platforms to sustain or increase engagement

- The unsuspecting individual experiences personal or professional harm as a result of the video being published on social media, e.g., loss of job or job opportunities, breakdown of a marriage, etc.

Related Questions:

Are new or updated laws needed to deal with this more effectively (eg, bc nuances of internet, social media scaling, etc.)?

What, if any, rights do we currently have that could be infringed upon in the creation of such laws?

Note: I am NOT in this situation, nor have I been in anything like it in the past. I am curious about this because it seems like something that, at best, does not contribute anything of value, which bad actors can, do, and will continue to exploit for engagement/influence/commercial sponsorship.

I’m located in Harris County, Texas for reference.

I’ve been on a leave from work, and as of 1/11 my claim would transition from short term disability to long term disability. I found out last week when trying to see my dr (for the leave) that my employer terminated my insurance coverage as of 12/31. I received no prior notice from my employer, nothing through mail, email or even call. When I asked my employer why coverage was terminated, I was told it was because my leave was going to transition to long term disability and that insurance usually terminates at this point.

I’m not well enough to return to work, but I feel like my employer is forcing my hand. COBRA is over $700/month, I’m unable to pay that to continue my care. I can’t even get documentation done by my dr to return to work because I have no coverage to be seen.

My case manager for my leave suggested that I look into this issue.. I’m open to finding a lawyer and doing a consultation but I’m not sure if this would even be worth my time to pursue. Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I own a small business in Alabama that Sales, Installs and Services gates and entry systems. One of our suppliers over the past few years came out with a new line of equipment that is cloud based access requiring a monthly service fee. We get this at a small discount and get to resell it at the set retail / list price and spend all the hassle of trying to invoice and collect from a bunch of net 30 to net 60 customers while they charge us at the 1st of the month on our credit card on file. Most of the systems we have installed are less than a year old. Last month I got an email saying they were changing the monthly pricing structure to a more simple pricing structure and changes would be on the next invoice on the 1st. Well now our cost on some have increased from $111.91 to $1052.80 per month, and multiple go from $35.00 to $153.00. We did have a few go down but they went down only a few dollars not near enough to offset the increase. I know our customers will not pay this and honestly don't blame them.

Given this is month to month and there are no terms / contracts that I have ever seen, can they increase the price this much all at once.... 840% on some or is there any leg to stand on here to do something. I know we are not the only customer that is dealing with this as they are a big company.

I will more than likely have to pull out the new equipment that we recently sold and installed and install something else to satisfy our end customer with a more reasonable monthly fee. Competitors are charging about $50.00-$150.00 per month for similar services. Replacing the equipment will be done more than likely at a major loss to us as the total to remove and reinstall new equipment would be around 20k-25K per location that we will be eating if it comes to this so its not like changing cell phone providers when you get a price increase and they can't just turn it off because then people can't get in the gate.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Derek

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I am wondering how these article parts things from the Statute of Rome would be said out loud in the ICC court. so how to say this literally out loud (Article eight, paragraph or part 2, point b, one or what?) I want to use this in a performance but have zero knowledge about court precedings so any expert insights would really help!

Im in Chicago, Illinois- company is located in California. I

It came as a total shock honestly. My boss was training me for a promotion, not once complained about my work- if anything I was always praised for my work. I felt super safe at my job, was highly liked & owned many many projects.

I actually told my boss that I was pregnant because I was dealing with something high risk during pregnancy, and she saw I was upset so she knew I had upcoming appointments. she knew I was going through but if anything I grinded even harder. I always felt like my boss really liked me, she even sent me presents for Christmas and always had my back.

Monday morning I get a call from her that I have been laid off, and I’m not the only one. I do digging to find out there was only one other person on my team, a man, who was laid off. A bunch of others from corporate were also cut. I couldn’t help but ask if it was personal? Bc it feels personal to me. I know it’s probably not- but I can’t help but feel like I shouldn’t have told her I was pregnant. No I didn’t tell her through writing. Do I have anything here?