- [Update] I take prescription medication for ADHD. Started a new job and drug test collection site released a preliminary result to employer of me failing drug test. Company rescinded job offer despite a clean result from lab. Left old job for new one and now I'm unemployed.
- [Update] (CA) Property management company not complying with court ordered security deposit return. Wrote me a bad check.
- Update to the family that had been living in my inherited home for 15 years.
- Planned Parenthood charging me because I'm "illegal"
- [Texas] Payroll question. A whole month later, our old owner told the new owner not to pay holidays, so he deducted from our most recent paycheck since he paid Memorial Day.
- Someone lied on a mental inquest warrant claiming I said I wanted to kill people
- FL - FL DOR taking me to court because ex-wife wants to receive state benefits
- CFP moved over $20k of stocks into my roboadvisor account, instead of my brokerage account. Roboadvisor immediately sells it all. Best path forward?
- Tips keep getting stolen and boss says "oh well"
- [Michigan] - Wife accidentally double-paid a hospital bill. Hospital won't refund the second payment.
- Need advice about a stalker.
- [CA] Does Airbnbing a spare room give rights to the people staying in my house?
- [WA] Amazon rep asked me to send broken glass in the mail.
- My fiancé's work is absolutely worthless when it comes to having change in the shop. Its now at the point where they are threatening to make them go down to their bank and take out their own money to fill the till with change. Is this legal at all?
- Paid to speak at city council meeting
- HOA had my car towed from my designated spot
- Laundromat refuses to take off my personal home phone number off their sign.
- As a Nail Technician, am I liable if I accidentally made my client nail bleed?
- [TEXAS] Reading my son's latest comic & spotted a citation near the end. He says it's so he doesn't get in trouble with the police & Nintendo. Even though it's a parody, does he legally need to cite the "source"? I'm not a lawyer so I need to "ask one for when it's published."
- [Indiana] Is posting 'creep shots' online illegal?
- Advertising company wants to convert paper billboard to LED on property behind my home. (California)
- [CO] A girl who was informally renting my car abandoned it, and it was recently sold at auction. Do I have grounds for small claims?
- I am not being paid for a craigslist gig i worked! subcontracted for ikea, building kitchens. Was relying on this money!
| Posted: 01 Jul 2018 10:44 PM PDT Link to original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8u3pzg/tnms_i_take_prescription_medication_for_adhd/ I am surprised how quickly this situation was resolved. I met with an attorney for a consultation Thursday. After talking and explaining my situation, she told me this strikes a nerve and hits very close to home with her because her husband and one of her kids has ADHD. I could tell how furious she was by her expressions and mannerisms. She told me that she would contact the company pro bono, but if it came to a lawsuit, she would take it on contingency as I could get punitive damages. I told her I don't want to sue anyone if I don't have to, I just want this job offer back as I have been waiting a long time for a job like this. She also explained that if her attempts at contacting the company were unsuccessful, I could file an EEOC charge and go through them before filing a lawsuit with her if needed Ultimately, she told me this is discrimination. Due to an unrelated incident a while back, I have an app on my phone that records all phone calls (one-party consent in my state) and saves them to my Google Drive. I played the calls with my manager to the attorney. When my manager informed me of the preliminary result I explained to her my prescription medication and my ADHD. The attorney told me it was good that I disclosed that at the time because now the company can no longer claim they didn't know about my disability, which would be a defense to discrimination (also this is an office job and my meds and ADHD would not cause any issues in performing my duties). I was not terminated at this time, just "suspended" pending the lab test. The call after my lab test came back, my manager said the offer was rescinded and my employment was being terminated due the preliminary result conflicting with the lab result but I would be paid for my one day of work. As far as not being "honest" in my interview regarding the drug test, my attorney feels that is just a smoke screen. Any reasonable person would think that question is being asked specifically to illegal substances so essentially we don't waste each other's time if I knew I would fail. I had no obligation to disclose any legally prescribed medications. I asked about the collection site (apparently the collection site is not directly affiliated with the lab, they just have a contract with the lab to analyze the samples they collect) disclosing the preliminary result and she said she wasn't sure if they did anything illegal because I signed a release before providing my urine sample and this is a separate issue, but she thinks an argument can be made for negligence. She would check up on it because she is not 100% familiar with collection sites releasing preliminary results in lieu of a lab test. She said that if it was a positive test for a substance that had no legitimate medical purpose, then "maybe" they would be ok releasing that but even still, dipping some strips in urine is not a certified or accredited test. She said ultimately the point of having a lab test and MRO is to remove all potential variables of a false positive and the point of the MRO is to have someone that is knowledgeable with what can cause a positive result and that can analyze if that positive result is valid or not, to prevent sending false positive results back. If it comes down to a lawsuit, she would name the collection company as part of it, but ultimately this is about the company discriminating. Anyway, my attorney called me the next day saying she had a conference call with the head of HR and their legal department. When she initially talked to the head of HR, he had been on vacation when all this went down and he had no knowledge of my situation and would look into it and get back to her. He called her back with legal on the line and they decided to re-offer me my job and pay me for all the time missed. My attorney goes on to say they want to have a conference call with me present and if I could come into her office that afternoon. I agreed. When I was at her office for the conference call, those present on the call were the head of HR, legal department, my manager, my attorney, and myself. Essentially this call was an apology to me. The head of HR profusely apologized for this. He went on to tell me that this decision was made by someone new in HR and despite the head being on vacation, he always makes himself available to his employees and he should have been consulted at the very least. If he had known about this, he would have gone with the lab result and we would have never been in this situation. He went on to say that he talked with the rep that decided to rescind my offer, and although he was apologetic, the head of HR felt that the rep did not fully understand the legal position he put the company in and he is no longer employed with the company. They want me to come back in Monday (tomorrow) to continue my employment. He stated that my manager spoke very highly of my qualifications and interview and they "want nothing more than a person with my background on their team." He even said he would treat me and my manager to lunch Monday. He told me that they will give me a private office to accommodate my ADHD. I told them that wasn't necessary as I am perfectly capable of performing my job in a cubicle, like everyone else, but he insisted. So now I have my job back, getting back pay, have a private office, and being treated to lunch by the head of HR. I owe much thanks to this community for all the advice and support you have given me. I wish I could personally shake hands with all of you. I was so scared before reading your comments. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 10:57 AM PDT Following up from my previous post! original post link Good news, I haw finally received my full judgement amount, interest, court costs, and fees from the property management company. I sent them a certified letter demanding payment of the bad check, while threatening another lawsuit for damages. They replied saying they had no record of a check ever being sent to me in the first place and they sent a return demand, asking for payment of ~$400, which they claimed was the amount due after they subtracted the judgement amount. That same day, I went to the court and filed for an Examination Hearing. This is a hearing where the defendant is ordered to either pay or appear for the hearing with an explanation of why they haven't paid and a statement of assets for me to levy from. Failing to appear for the hearing results in a warrant for the defendant's arrest. I sent a strongly-worded letter informing them they could either pay or not pay, but the judge would probably not appreciate them failing to comply. I also explained the issue at trial was the return of my security deposit, not how much I owed them. Within an hour of the sheriff serving the order, the property manager called me and asked for a breakdown of the costs and a total amount they owed. I added together every bit and they paid me within 24 hours. Thank you for everyone's help with my original post! [link] [comments]  |
| Update to the family that had been living in my inherited home for 15 years. Posted: 02 Jul 2018 11:10 AM PDT OP here. https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8srvbe/tx_adverse_possession_acquired_by_squatter_who/ Simply put the lawyer was able to find out that they had not gone through the steps for adverse possession. They were undocumented immigrants and therefore never did the full process to gain ownership. According to the lawyer, this means that the property was never not mine. IT is a good thing I waited till they abandoned the property though as if I tried evicting them then they probably would have obtained ownership. There is still a few things that need to happen before I move into the home though. Paperwork is needing to be filed and such. I did not pay too much attention to it, but he stated that if all goes well I would be able to move in by the end of the month. Technically I could move in now, but that might generate unnecessary LEO interactions. In the mean time I have to visibly show ownership of the property as the greedy next door neighbor has been seen on the property taking amateur surveys and generally making it known he wants free property. In response I went in, mowed the lawn down with the tractor mower, had a professional crew clean up the dogs, and have started fixing up the outside of the house. I go there every single day now and have been making improvements and fixing things to the property. All recorded on go pro. The lawyer states that the video will likely be useless as that man would have to move in and stay there for 10 years to get it for free. He recommended I put up some private property signs around the property. Which I have. So all in all a very good outlook for my home. Plan to move in by the end of the month. [link] [comments]  |
| Planned Parenthood charging me because I'm "illegal" Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:17 AM PDT Like the title says. I became a legal citizen of the U.S. on May 10th of 2017. I live in Idaho. I live with my husband and all was great until it was that time of the year to go get my birth control shot. I made the decision to go to Planned Parenthood to go get it done on October of 2017. My husband decided to go with me because I was nervous because I was also getting a pap-smear along with the Depo-Provera shot. When we get there all is well and the Doctor is really awesome and helps me with all I need. I go and pay my bill in full which all in all comes to about 140 something dollars. I thought that was the end of that. Little did I know. Months have passed and I move on with life. I'm working as a teachers aid so I'm not making very much money. Suddenly one day I get a letter in the mail saying that I owe Planned Parenthood over $400. I call and ask for their reasoning and they say it is because I was illegal when I went to go get my shot?! I was livid. I made some more calls to try to get ahold of the manager of that specific clinic but I was never able to get ahold of him/her. Months have gone by and I'm still stuck having to pay them for being illegal? My question now is what can I do? Is that a actual thing? I can't afford a lawyer so I don't know what to do. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:53 AM PDT Backstory: Previous boss sold the company at the beginning of May. The new owner decided to pay us holidays, so we were paid for Memorial Day. Fast forward to last week's paycheck. We were a day short and I brought it up this morning. The new owner said that the old owner came in and he let her do payroll. She saw that we were paid for the holiday and took it upon herself to deduct that from our checks, a whole month later. No one even alerted us. Is this legal? It feels unethical and dirty. She isn't the owner so I'm confused as to why she is given power over the company. We were given 3 hours notice about the new owner and we were not able to negotiate our contracts, despite being employed under an entirely new LLC. [link] [comments]  |
| Someone lied on a mental inquest warrant claiming I said I wanted to kill people Posted: 02 Jul 2018 01:02 AM PDT I had to stay in the hospital for the minimum required before they let me out. The ex-friend told the police that I said I "wanted to kill myself and take others with me." When I confronted him upon release he admitted that he "made it up so they would take me". My question is, can MIW have any repercussions down the line? Is this worth pursuing legal action over? Something tells me when you tell the police someone is planning to kill other people, they write that down, and I don't want that kind of thing following me. [link] [comments]  |
| FL - FL DOR taking me to court because ex-wife wants to receive state benefits Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:54 AM PDT Background I'm living in Ohio. I have to drive to Florida to appear in a child support hearing in the morning that I couldn't attend telephonically because they told me to put in my request to the WRONG fax number and I've passed the cutoff date for requests. This is all because my ex wants to keep receiving state benefits instead of working, so the FL Dept of Revenue says instead of paying her directly, I have to establish payments and arrears (I'm fully current so there shouldn't be any arrears) through them (which i have no problem doing. a simple phone call requesting it would have sufficed, but I digress)... and oh by the way it's going through court and they say I have to pay the DOR's court and legal fees. So, now not only do i have those fees to pay for, I also have 2,000 miles to drive and pay for, and I'm going to be missing half a week of work which I'm certainly paying for!!! Questions Can I avoid having to pay the DOR for their fees and costs? Can I possibly sue them or my Ex for my travel and lost wages? (if so, can that be done in my home state?) Any heads ups or tips for this hearing in the morning? (Yeah, I'm gonna be up for a while...) ANYTHING I CAN DO NOW TO POSTPONE THIS AND ARRANGE A PROPER TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE AT A LATER DATE??? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:03 AM PDT At the beginning of June, I signed up with a CFP who I know to be very well credentialed and has done great things for many of my family members. I had assets in a couple places prior to that, which I was looking to consolidate under his management: ~$7k in a Schwab Robo Advisor (intelligent portfolio) account, $~23k of various stock holdings in Robinhood. Probably ~$20k of these stocks have been held for less than one year. I also had an already opened Schwab brokerage account which I hadn't ever used. Our mutual intention was to move all of this into a Schwab broker (not roboadvisor) account with him given Limited Power of Attorney over it. So, his assistant walked me through the paperwork- LPOA forms, transfer forms, and the investor agreement. Here is the chronology of this:
That brings us to now. The CFP asked me for all of the transactions made by the robo account, which I provided a few days ago. He said that he would do "everything he can to straighten this out." I know there's been negligence here, by me and probably both by the CFP (via his assistant) and Schwab. I'd like to ultimately stay with this CFP, but it doesn't seem like the short term capital gains tax should be my sole burden to bear. Is there an obvious path forward here? Edit: I am in MA, CFP is based in GA [link] [comments]  |
| Tips keep getting stolen and boss says "oh well" Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:36 AM PDT CT-My boyfriend is a waiter and lives primary off his tips. Most are credit card tips but occasionally there are cash tips. They split the tips between all the waiters and put them in envelopes in a shoe box so anyone can access it. Lets say he gets off at 6pm, they wont do tips till midnight so when he comes in next day (sometimes two days later) and goes to the box (that any waiter has access to) he will have an envelope that says 40$ but wont have any money in it. This is because anyone can go in back and grab their money while also skimming money off other envelopes. He has complained about it before but they wont fix the system. Is there anything he can do? this is part of his pay and its being stolen at least once a week. Its not much, but it adds up and is disrespectful and hurtful. Please help! (also, he gave me permission to ask, i hope im in the right spot.) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 11:20 AM PDT This might seem open and shut, but I thought I would ask for advice My wife gave birth to our child in 2017 at a hospital chain in southeast Michigan. We've gotten numerous related bills that my wife has been paying using the hospital's online bill pay system. She paid one bill online for approximately $1200. A couple months later, she went back into their online bill pay to pay a different bill, but in her parental sleep-deprivated state, accidentally re-paid the $1200 one. Their system somehow didn't recognize she already paid that first bill and let her pay it a second time. Her bank statements show two separate identical transactions spread out by a couple of months. All other bills were paid on time; she does not have any current outstanding debt with the hospital. She has called their customer service line at least 12 times in the past 8 months to get her $1200 refunded. Every time, their reps dodge the payment or promise something that never happens. Not only that, but they don't seem to keep an accurate record of all previous calls/work done. On several of these calls, she has been told that a supervisor will call her back in 24 to 48 hours. That never happens. My wife calls back and the reps don't have the previous call on record. They promise another supervisor will call in 24 to 48 hours. Still doesn't happen. On a more recent occasion, she threatened legal action. They asked her to send the bank statements showing both transactions to them via email and was told the $1200 check will be in the mail in 4 to 6 weeks after they receive the copies of the statements. We waited, but the check never came. My wife calls back and they have no record of any financial disputes or refunds on her account. We're ready to file a small claims lawsuit to get her money back, but we have zero experience in legal proceedings. We have the original $1200 bill and the bank statements showing two identical payments in that couple months span of time. Is there anything else we might need before filing or should this be enough evidence for our case? Stupid question: can small claims courts subpoena for documentation from the hospital's billing department? Thanks in advance EDIT: Our bank doesn't allow debit disputes after 60 days past the transaction date. This all happened spring of 2017. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 04:22 AM PDT I'm a 16 year old guy that work at a skating rink, and recently while going there to skate for fun, I met a 12 year old girl. She's a foster kid, and asked for my snapchat after 10 or so minutes of talking. I thought she was just being friendly and wanted someone to talk to, but she started calling me "daddy" on snapchat and sending pictures of her in bras and stuff. Then she started to say the things she wanted me to do to her and I kept saying that she is 12 and that I am not looking for a girlfriend. She wouldn't stop so I made an excuse to block her and stop talking to her. She made a couple of accounts on snapchat just to add me and try talking to me but I blocked all of them and she stopped. Then, a week later she came back to the skating rink. This time, she followed me around and stared at me and my coworkers (they noticed she was hiding and looking at us while we were talking). She would literally follow me and call me "dada" and stuff and I kept ignoring her and giving excuses to get away. Before she left, she ran up to me and gave me a hug, which I obviously did not like and pushed her away. For a month, I didn't see her show up but she added me on Snapchat. This time, she was disguised as a random dude and I fell for it. "He" said he met me through a coworker and just wanted to talk about the rink. Then things got REALLY sketchy. First of all, the account was brand new. Also the location on Snapmaps was exactly where the stalkers location was. After I exposed her, she said that she was one of the coworkers (she used the coworkers name and I was kind of freaked out) but after exposing her again she just kept leaving me on read. Can I get her in legal trouble for following me around, making numerous accounts on snapchat to send me explicit pictures, and physically hugging me without my consent, etc? Thank you for reading through this wall of text, I have no idea what to do with this situation. [link] [comments]  |
| [CA] Does Airbnbing a spare room give rights to the people staying in my house? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:02 AM PDT Hello, I am thinking about renting out my spare bedroom on Airbnb or something like that. Let's say someone stays at my place for the weekend, but refuses to leave. Would I have to evict them and give 30 days required by law? Anyone have experience with this? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| [WA] Amazon rep asked me to send broken glass in the mail. Posted: 02 Jul 2018 10:39 AM PDT [Washington state] Amazon sent me a bunch of broken wine glasses. I requested a refund/replacement but they want the broken glass back, in the original packaging. They're shattered into small pieces and I'm concerned that whoever opens this is going to get hurt. I feel like they're asking me to mail a booby trap. What should I do here? Is it illegal to mail possibly dangerous items like this? Should I just throw it in a Tupperware container with a warning written on it? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:06 AM PDT I am in the UK, the shop is a major supply chain. Throwaway just to be sure. [link] [comments]  |
| Paid to speak at city council meeting Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:27 AM PDT Hey, I saw a local posting online that a developer is asking people to go to a city council meeting and speak on behalf of a rezoning. Is that illegal? Either for people who take the money and speak or for the developer? Edit: Location is Cary, North Carolina [link] [comments]  |
| HOA had my car towed from my designated spot Posted: 02 Jul 2018 12:46 PM PDT Hi all this is my first post to legal advice so please bear with me. My neighborhood HOA notified the neighborhood they would be painting and cleaning our parking spot lines and numbersJune 26, 27 and 28 about two weeks ago. So I plan accordingly and have my cars moved from my spaces those days. I get up for work this morning July 2nd and my car is gone and I see other cars being towed. So I call my HOA and they tell me they actually meant to say July 2nd on the letter they originally sent. So they claim to have "sent" a new on on Friday June 29th that I did not receive. They are not cooperating with me to get my car back so I end up just getting my car because I need it. So now I am out $180. Even if they did send a notification with the corrected dates on Friday that is only three days notice. I could've been gone the weekend and never seen it. So my question is, is there a minimum amount of days they have to notify us? Also is there anything I can do about this? I should probably add that I live in Virginia. Thanks in advanced! [link] [comments]  |
| Laundromat refuses to take off my personal home phone number off their sign. Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:12 PM PDT Laundromat has my house phone number put on their sign. I have been asking them to take it down for the last 6-8 years and they still haven't. We constantly have people calling in and badgering us about their clothes that we don't have. Its really annoying and frustrating. [link] [comments]  |
| As a Nail Technician, am I liable if I accidentally made my client nail bleed? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:53 AM PDT There were some clients arguing about the possibilities of suing me for liabilities if I made them bleed. Edit: I live in Tennessee. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 11:27 AM PDT He's asked that can the internet please not steal his title "Super Steve Odyssey" thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| [Indiana] Is posting 'creep shots' online illegal? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:06 AM PDT I stumbled across a Tumblr porn blog from a local with several posts containing creep shots - covertly taken pictures of women (mostly their asses). The photos contain sexual captions, e.g. "Prime breeding material.", "Breeder search.", "Milf creepin", and "Nice ass.". All of the photos are of clothed women in public - only one might be classifiable as an 'upskirt' shot. Some of the photos contain children, though they are obviously not the target and only incidentally included. Would this be worth reporting to the police? [link] [comments]  |
| Advertising company wants to convert paper billboard to LED on property behind my home. (California) Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:29 AM PDT There's an advertising company that leases property behind my home with a wooden/paper billboard with spotlight. They are wanting to update the sign to LED signage. My concern is light pollution and the effect on my property value. I was wondering what my rights are in this situation and if I could/would be subject to compensation. The company sent letters to homes in the adjacent area asking if anyone objects to the new signage (guessing for permits?). They have tried planting trees to block the light for the current sign, but many of those have died. The company said they plan on planting more trees to block out the LED signage, have offered to plant trees in my yard (which I don't want) and a one time cash payment. Just hoping for some advice so I can make an educated decision regarding the situation. Thanks for your time. Contra Costa County, California [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:20 AM PDT I left to travel to Asia for a year and I gave my 1995 gmc Vandura to an acquaintance who wanted to use it on weekends. She paid me $90 upfront for 3 months use with the assumption that I would collect $30/month thereafter. It was really informal and friendly. Well my trip lasted a long time and I recently returned. The van had been booted and abandoned because it had collected many parking tickets. It was then booted and towed and sold at auction for $600. She did contact me that the van was getting parking tickets and that it had been booted. I was dealing with a serious medical condition so I kind of pushed it all away. My fault there for being apathetic. I still think she agreed to rent my car thinking she could safely store it, but she only had street parking and apparently it was illegal to park there. From a legal perspective who is at fault for the van being towed and sold? Can I bring her to small claims and win? The KBB value of the van is around $2000. I built it into a camper, spending about $600 more. Inside there was a $800 tent that I think it gone. I also lived in the damn thing if that matters. I'd like to get around $4000 so I can replace the tent and buy another shitty old van. Thanks for the time [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 11:15 AM PDT I responded to a craigslist add about 4 weeks ago to help build ikea cabinets for a guy who was installing kitchens for IKEA. Im very low on money just trying to survive in LA so i was willing to do anything. It was fun work, i got all my work done early and i thought the guy was great. After only 4 days he fired me saying it was because i vape (nicotine) and because i was late (5 min). I thought being fired was suspicious but i took the blame and i felt terrible. He promised to pay me the next week. Next week he promised to pay me the week after that, and now he has flat out stopped responding to my texts!! I called ikea and they said there is nothing they can do. Im about to just go to the house we worked on to get his information from the clients, as i only have his first name, and phone number. He was to pay me 120 a day, plus extra for this day that i worked 12 hours. The original craigslist ad is deleted, and it was the only place where the payment was discussed. Am i just completely boned here?? what can i do? [link] [comments]  |
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