A quick legal question

[The Argent Lord]

I'm positive that there's a law against people congregating in the middle of a public street, but I have no idea where to even begin to look for such a thing. Could someone more familiar with this sort of thing than I tell me where exactly I should be looking for this?

[Nikose Tyris]

You should look up loitering laws.

[bluestarultor]

Or you could just call the police next time it happens.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I would suggest asking Solid Snake, but he's a wreck right now. So yeah just call the police and they'll sort shit out.

[Loyal]

I don't suppose we could ask for an explanation of events leading up to this thread?

[Hanuman]

If it impedes traffic even for an instance it's considered jaywalking.

Though, me and my friends have often just taken a nice stargaze while lying down on the street, and that's perfectly legal as long as you're not there while any bikes or cars are coming.

[The Argent Lord]

Police would normally work, but I'm trying to use this as a preventative measure.

I don't suppose we could ask for an explanation of events leading up to this thread?
Unless you want to hear about LARP drama, I'd suggest you not. The short version, though, is that the head of the group cheated her way into office. Now she's trying to hold meetings at inconvenient places so we can't vote her out.

[bluestarultor]

Police would normally work, but I'm trying to use this as a preventative measure.


Unless you want to hear about LARP drama, I'd suggest you not. The short version, though, is that the head of the group cheated her way into office. Now she's trying to hold meetings at inconvenient places so we can't vote her out.

I'd say if all else fails, take everyone but her and start anew. If anyone's dumb enough to stick with her, they deserve what they get. She can have fun leading a LARP group consisting of her and a sock puppet.

[Fungrus]

From wikipedia:

Section 3 of the Militia Act gave power to the President to issue a proclamation to "command the insurgents to disperse, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes, within a limited time", and authorised him to use the militia if they failed to do so. Substantively identical language is presently codified at chapter 15 of title 10, United States Code

So uh...ring Obama?

[Nique]

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Where the hell is Solid Snake? What did we put him through law school for if not to answer unsubstantial legal questions at our whim?

[Solid Snake]

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Where the hell is Solid Snake? What did we put him through law school for if not to answer unsubstantial legal questions at our whim?

Dude, it's the summer after my 1L year.
If you're expecting me to answer any legal questions whatsoever, you might want to wait until September.

Because for the next couple months, my mind's in complete shutdown mode. As in, I want to at least pretend for a little while that I know absolutely nothing about the law. I want to erase the last year from my memory entirely.

...If you spent several weeks in April and May basically waking up, studying for eighteen hours, and then going to sleep, you'd understand the feeling.

(Also not a single one of my 1L classes covered public congregation on the streets. In Criminal Justice, we concentrated less on misdemeanors [which can vary tremendously on a state-by-state basis] and more on felonies like homicide and rape. I think we spent all of one week talking about minor traffic violations, and that was largely from the perspective of racial profiling.)

[BitVyper]

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Where the hell is Solid Snake?

Snake? Snake! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

(and if you're thinking of pointing out that he just posted, shut the fuck up)

[bluestarultor]

I'm positive that there's a law against people congregating in the middle of a public street, but I have no idea where to even begin to look for such a thing. Could someone more familiar with this sort of thing than I tell me where exactly I should be looking for this?

I'd suggest using Google to look up your province and the laws in question. For instance, I got this page (http://www.lawserver.com/law/state/wisconsin/wi-laws/wisconsin_laws_346-29) just by Googling "Wisconsin loitering law." If similar doesn't bring anything up for you, just play around with the words.

[The Argent Lord]

I'd suggest using Google to look up your province and the laws in question. For instance, I got this page (http://www.lawserver.com/law/state/wisconsin/wi-laws/wisconsin_laws_346-29) just by Googling "Wisconsin loitering law." If similar doesn't bring anything up for you, just play around with the words.

Yeah, I ended up finding one. Unfortunately, she's managed to finagle it such that we're now meeting in her backyard. 9_9

[bluestarultor]

Yeah, I ended up finding one. Unfortunately, she's managed to finagle it such that we're now meeting in her backyard. 9_9

Good. Now you know where she lives. >3

[synkr0nized]

I'd be curious if the numbers are sufficient to bring public gatherings or the related terms into play (right to assembly vs. needing a permit, etc.). However, meeting in the middle of the street should bring in traffic law, like jaywalking as mentioned, and issues with hindering traffic -- a public service being interrupted in the sense that we all should be allowed to travel on the roads? -- so I would expect you could look at either.

Regardless, if this is something that has or continues to happen in your area you may want to just ask the police what rules apply or if they can help. Most of the time they are actually quite helpful even if you just want to gather information.