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Are defendants who pay a settlement for a matter that's compensatory required to file a 1099 with the IRS and the plaintiff? I looked around a bit and read these articles as well as section 104: (commercial links removed) The law and articles above are clear on some types of claims as far as...

Thanks for the clarification! Your post was quite helpful. Indeed I was conflating punitive w/statutory (which made me wonder how I managed to win [what I thought was] punitive damages in small claims court the past). The compensatory damages and statutory damages I'm asking are unrelated in...

If I understand you correctly, you believe threads should be organized on a per person basis, not per subject matter. Yet this is not what I'm seeing here. I don't see thread titles like "Just Blue's thread" or "Joe's thread". How well do you think the search function would work if threads...

Thanks for the tip. I've read that before and thought since it's not over "Libel, slander, replevin, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process actions" that the small claims court would have jurisdiction. Perhaps I'm misusing the term punitive.. which I thought was simply private rights of...

I must clarify that in this case the punitive damages are unrelated to the actual damages. I filed this all as one case because it involves the same party. But the action that caused the actual damages is not the same action that triggered the punitive damages.

What is the name of your state? OH My complaint looks roughly like this: claim 1 actual (compensatory) damages: $4k claim 2 punitive statutory damages: $1k claim 3 punitive statutory damages: $1k claim 4 punitive statutory damages: $1k claim 5 punitive statutory damages: $1k Wherefore...

Thanks, that could be useful to me at some point. The scope of the thread is really just about how to get the law in a readable format, and how/whether to present it to the court in a hearing. I mentioned Ohio b/c that's where I have an immediate need, but I was also interested in general...

@Zigner You simply quoted the publicly accessible portion that states "State Board of Education shall.. Develop rules..". Of course the referring law is accessible, but not the rules that the BoE is obligated to write. Where are the rules that § 115C-402.5 (b)(2) directs the BoE to write?

This is perhaps a good time to point out a case where my access to law was blocked by a walled garden. Not too long ago I was looking at NC law § 115C-402.5 (b)(2), where it delegates legislation to the NC board of education. Yet when I go to the site with those laws, I'm blocked by a walled...

My university had Lexis/Nexis access which was given to students and the general public. That was decades ago and I've wondered if that's a thing of the past, as Lexis probably doesn't want just anyone to get gratis access from the subscription of another. Anyway, an appeals court ruled that...

You can also build a house with nothing more than a hammer, chisel, and chainsaw. That doesn't mean it's wise to do so. Tools automate. Proper tools automate the job at hand. Tell me if I'm wrong but AFAIK MS Word cannot automatically detect paragraph numbers and apply a style.

You're contradicting @adjusterjack, who said "The judge isn't going to be looking things up. Prepare hard copies": https://forum.freeadvice.com/threads/oh-how-to-present-format-internet-published-evidence-citing-law-is-hardcopy-necessary-how-many-how-to-censor-sensitive-info.658451/post-3681892...

My question is highly specialized in the context of law. No generic Adobe tool would likely perform functions specifically for addressing the shortcomings of roughly formatted legal text. I should also say my question is not just about tools, but also about services. That is, the Ohio Revised...

What is the name of your state? OH I've been printing legal code off the web in a 2-up arrangement. Printing HTML is generally lousy if there is more than one page. There is no concept of keeping paragraphs together. If the page break happens just before half of the last sentence in the...

I think thermal is ideal in terms of reliability, never running out of ink, and quietness. I could see the fading as a problem, but the use-case I have in mind is printing ~1-3 pages in a pinch just to get through the day. My local small claims court tolerates people only having one copy of...