Lawyer here: if you purchased a Marc Jacobs bag today for a ridiculously low price because of a website glitch, they can't cancel the transaction.
It would be different if they just advertised the wrong price, but once you've completed the transaction, that's a binding contract.
Honestly I care zero about people buying Marc Jacobs bags, it's just so typical of a luxury brand trying to do something illegal by not honoring a valid sales contract.
Especially when these brands have been getting so much sympathetic coverage recently because of the "surge" in retail theft etc.
I mean you want to get all morally righteous about one thing, pretty sure at a minimum you might have to hold yourself to the same standard - meaning don't break the law. @marcjacobs
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Corrections officers killed 17-year-old Cedric Lofton last September, but the Wichita County DA says he will not charge them because of Kansas' Stand Your Ground Law - a law passed to allow homeowners to act in self defense not give law enforcement impunity to kill.
Cedric was experiencing a mental health crisis when his foster father locked him out of the house the night he died and called the police.
Police took him to a juvenile jail. Corrections officers placed him in ankle shackles, and handcuffed him. nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/…
The officers then pushed him face down into the ground, holding him down for half an hour until he stopped breathing. He died later at the hospital.
The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. Bodycam of the incident has been released. I am not posting.
The three Pennsylvania police officers who killed 8-year-old Fanta Bility outside a high school football game in August have been charged with manslaughter.and reckless endangerment.
The first degree murder charges against two teenagers charged in the shooting have been dropped.
The officers, Devon Smith, Sean Dolan and Brian Devaney, fired a barrage of shots into the large crowd after they say they heard gunfire.
Blocks away two Black teenagers were engaged in an altercation, during which a gun was allegedly shot. nytimes.com/2022/01/18/us/…
There was never any question that it was one of the cop's guns that had killed Fanta, but the DA charged the two Black teenagers with first degree murder.
It was unclear how they could ever prove this charge since first degree murder requires intent. inquirer.com/news/angelo-fo…
Ernest Thomas, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Walter Irvin were aged between 16 and 26 when Norma Padgett, a 17-year-old White woman, accused them of rape.
Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin were veterans of WW2 and had continued to wear their uniforms when they returned to the US.
(African American veterans were frequent targets for lynchings - a reminder their service did not affect their status at home.) npr.org/2018/09/20/649…
Black people are often excluded from jump because jury pools are usually drawn from lists of registered voters (felony disenfranchisement laws mean in some states as many as 10 to 20% of Black people can't vote) and DMV records (Black people have lower rates of car ownership).
This obviously affects people from more disadvantaged socioeconomic advantage regardless of race.
Yes homicides increased in 2020, compared to 2019. They did not double, nowhere near it. That's not surprising. We were in the middle of an unprecedented global pandemic.
A more relevant statistic: over the last 28 years, homicides in the Bronx have decreased 80%.
If you read my timeline you know how I feel about Kyle Rittenhouse, so please believe me when I tell you it does not matter legally that he "crossed state lines."
I represent people who live in other jurisdictions and are charged with crimes in NYC all the time, including serious felonies. It does not matter.
This is a state case.
Crossing state lines is one basis under which federal prosecutors get jurisdiction, but its limited to certain cases - like sex trafficking or conspiracy - it doesn't just mean you live in one state and go to another to commit a crime.