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11	Student who was falsely accused of rape by Mattress Girl (Emma Sulkowicz) has just been denied his legal rights as the judge declared that being accused of rape apparently doesn't relate to sex and therefore isn't Title IX Well there's a fair point to the judge's argument. Just because allegations of sexual misconduct are involved doesn't mean that the harassment toward Nungesser was based on his sex. A woman accused of rape could in theory be treated the same way by the university. However, I doubt that such a campaign by a male making sexual assault allegations against a woman would be tolerated on a college campus. Unfortunately that is extremely difficult to prove because it is a counterfactual and because the…	/r/MensRights	15/03/16 03:07 PM
25	Student who was falsely accused of rape by Mattress Girl (Emma Sulkowicz) has just been denied his legal rights as the judge declared that being accused of rape apparently doesn't relate to sex and therefore isn't Title IX That's not really a fair representation of the court's ruling. The judge held that "sex-based" discrimination within the meaning of Title IX does not include someone discriminated against because they were accused of a crime. He's basically saying that the student couldn't show that the discrimination he suffered resulted from his sex. (I'm going to switch to using gender here to refer to biological sex despite the wording of the statute and the prevailing nomenclature in order to avoid confusio…	/r/MensRights	15/03/16 02:55 PM
2	Picture of a man being told he was innocent, after 40 years spent in prison The lawyers on these cases almost always work on contingency, so there is no upfront cost to the wrongfully convicted person. I haven't seen any studies comparing the relative amounts recovered under the alternative regimes, but I would be surprised if there is a huge difference on average. There's sort of a trade off: on the one hand, released prisoners recover more consistently and easily under fixed compensation laws. On the other, they are frequently underpaid relative to what they could hav…	/r/MensRights	02/01/16 08:42 PM
63	Picture of a man being told he was innocent, after 40 years spent in prison You're not always fucked. Those 30 states have fixed compensation, while the other states allow lawsuits where there was police or prosecutorial misconduct. Oftentimes, the fixed compensation is capped and replaces lawsuits, so people may actually be able to get more in states without fixed compensation.	/r/MensRights	02/01/16 05:31 PM
2	"You're raping me" For someone who argued so vehemently about the Constitution, I should think it is a cool story.	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 05:47 AM
2	"You're raping me" Oh, yeah, just noticed something kind of funny. You said the Magna Carta isn't a dead letter and then argued that the Ninth Amendment represents the Magna Carta. An overwhelming majority of times I have heard the phrase "dead letter" in discussions of Constitutional law, it has referred to the Ninth Amendment. 99% of lawyers will tell you that it has been absolutely irrelevant since its adoption. It was a sop to the anti-federalists and was promptly disregarded for pretty much the rest of US his…	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 05:43 AM
2	"You're raping me" Well, if you asked the Founders, they'd probably say natural law.	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 05:14 AM
5	"You're raping me" The Ninth Amendment is not the Magna Carta.	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 05:02 AM
11	"You're raping me" You do not understand what binding precedent is. The Supreme Court occasionally cites the Magna Carta as an interpretive guide. Binding precedent means that a court is required to apply the legal standard established in a prior case or superior legal authority in a current decision. The Supreme Court is required to apply the Constitution and the precedents established in prior Supreme Court rulings. That's it. No other authority is binding on the Supreme Court. Usually, when a case reaches the S…	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 04:44 AM
5	"You're raping me" Not as binding precedent. Edit: binding precedent has a very specific technical legal meaning.	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 04:26 AM
3	"You're raping me" The Articles of Confederation contribute about as much to the common law in the US. In some attenuated way, both contributed to the existing legal system, but neither is binding authority that could be cited in court.	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 04:16 AM
8	"You're raping me" Her argument seems to be that she can do whatever she wants but that the officer will be arrested for arresting her. Which of course raises the question, who will arrest the person who arrests him for arresting him? She denies the validity of laws as they apply to her but not as they apply to others. So what do you think, any leg to stand on?	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 04:05 AM
55	"You're raping me" She might as well have cited the Magna Carta.	/r/PussyPassDenied	29/07/15 03:57 AM
8	Men who prefer slim women are called shallow. 98.8% of women won't message a short man because of "biological preference." Well it might be more accurate to argue that memes refers to the concept of the image macro as a whole, rather than to any individual message. The cultural 'genetic code' of image macros isn't any one message, but rather the idea of conveying jokes, advice, observations, and complaints vis text overlaid on an image.	/r/MensRights	10/12/13 02:25 PM
9	Suck it up and pay No, this pic is 65% bs from a legal perspective. If the mother wants to give the child up, the father can take custody and get child support from the mother in every state in the US. It's not like she can just hand the baby over to an adoption agency and say fuck the dad. He has a right to take custody before adoption. As for custody and child support, almost every state has gender neutral laws at this point, though there does remain some strong institutional bias in how courts make decisions. E…	/r/MensRights	20/09/13 01:19 AM