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No. Lane splitting is illegal throughout New York State — no exceptions for traffic jams, no city-specific carve-outs, no gray area like some other motorcycle laws in this state have. The rule comes straight from one statute, and it’s worth reading the actual text rather than just the summary, because it also answers a few…
There’s no clean yes-or-no answer here, and anyone who gives you one is oversimplifying. New York’s Penal Law still criminalizes possessing a stun gun or Taser statewide. A federal court said that ban is unconstitutional back in 2019. The legislature never changed the law. New York City has its own, separate ban that’s now sitting…
Methylene chloride’s ban just got more complicated. On September 15, 2026, the Fifth Circuit didn’t just pause EPA’s 2024 rule — it granted the industry petitioners’ request for review, vacated the rule and its risk determination, and sent the whole thing back to EPA. If you searched this because you heard “the ban was overturned,”…
Most guides on this tell you to wait for warning signs in the mail. That’s backwards. You can actively check whether your identity has been used for a fraudulent unemployment claim right now, in two ways most people don’t know exist: pulling your IRS wage and income transcript, which shows every 1099-G filed under your…
Look for a name you’ve never gone by. An address you’ve never lived at. An employer you’ve never worked for. A Social Security number that’s off by even one digit. Any one of those, sitting quietly in the personal information section of your credit report, can mean someone else is using your identity — even…
Here’s the thing most articles on this topic skip: small claims court isn’t a separate legal system from a civil lawsuit. It’s a civil lawsuit. Small claims is a simplified, lower-dollar division that lives inside the same civil court system as everything else — just stripped down and sped up. Once you get that, the…
Yes. You can own, buy, and use a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle in California. No statute bans the device. But almost every article you’ll find on this topic mixes that simple fact with two other laws that have nothing to do with owning a detector — and at least one popular “13…
No. Wyoming has no legal cannabis market of any kind — recreational or medical — and it’s one of the strictest states in the country on the subject. But the part most “is weed legal” roundups skip is what happened to hemp and Delta-8 in 2024, and a newer federal law stacking on top of…
Yes, abortion is currently legal in Virginia, and has been through every point since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. Virginia is the only state in the South without a post-Roe abortion ban. What’s changing is a separate question. This November, Virginia voters decide whether to add a right to reproductive freedom directly into…