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6 Basics of Promissory Notes
What Is a Promissory Note? When you’re thinking about providing someone with a loan that they can use to get a car or go to college, you might want to think about first creating a promissory note that will act as a kind of legal record for the loan while also making sure that you are properly repaid in the allotted time. Before you use a promissory note template to create one of these notes, you should first know more about a promissory note and what the legality of such a note is. Breaking Down a Promissory Note Promissory notes are a type of loan agreement or note that states that the borrower of the loan promises to pay back a certain amount of the money by a specific time frame. For instance, the promissory note could state that the borrower agrees to repay a total of $5,000 over a period of four years. While this document is very similar to a basic IOU, it’s considered to be a legally binding document, which means that its terms can be enforced and are expected to be fol...
“Chalking tires constitutes unreasonable search, 6th Circuit rules”
“Parking enforcement officers in Saginaw, Michigan, who use chalk to mark the tires of cars to track how long they have been parked are violating the constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.” [ Amanda Robert, ABA Journal ] In particular, the court found that chalking was a trespass and a search meant to obtain information that was not reasonable under a probable-cause or community-caretaker standard, nor under an exception allowing orderly regulation of road traffic, since in the court’s view it was aimed primarily at obtaining revenue rather than mitigating public hazard. Orin Kerr has more analysis at Volokh Conspiracy . Tags: Fourth Amendment , traffic laws “Chalking tires constitutes unreasonable search, 6th Circuit rules” curated from Overlawyered
Does existing law ban workplace bias against gays? SCOTUS will decide
My new post at Cato covers the Supreme Court’s decision to resolve three cases in which it is argued that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans private workplace discrimination against gay and transgender employees. I cite a 2017 Seventh Circuit showdown on the question between Judges Richard Posner and Diane Sykes: “These philosophical divides on statutory interpretation — which of course play out every term in lower-profile cases — are likely to be on the Court’s mind next fall.” More: Jared Odessky, On Labor (rounding up commentary). Tags: Richard Posner , sex discrimination , sexual orientation , Supreme Court , transgender Does existing law ban workplace bias against gays? SCOTUS will decide curated from Overlawyered