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Weekly Law Polls

This is the archive of previous polls and surveys

Annual Cleanse: You Can Play God

Christmas is a good time to round up the usual suspects, cleanse the streets. Should the Santas, lawyers & law professors or old-timer ice hockey players be rounded up and charged with fomenting religious fervour and/or presenting false beliefs to youth, a vulnerable segment of the population, or prosecuted for some such similar or convenient offence? PICK ONE: we'll send the results to Interpol.
Santas
Lawyers or Law Professors
Old-timer Ice Hockey Players

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Court Rules: Who?

Judges set the Rules of Court, holding dear exclusive control; that it is core to judicial independence. Governments now know that complex Rules are a barrier to simplified legal procedure; an urgent necessity judges seem incapable of implementing. Taking into account reasonable consultations, who should be ultimately responsible for the Rules of Court?
The judges of the Court.
The government.

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Sex, yes. But criminal?

Click here, read the story then vote: in your opinion, was Stephen Collins guilty of any criminal conduct in the events of July 24, 1971?
Yes.
No.

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Palestinian Statehood: Are They Ready?

Palestinians want the United Nations to grant it membership, a significant step towards statehood, claiming it is a "peace-loving nation". But still, in 2011, Palestinians name streets and schools after suicide bombers. Children television shows and textbooks express hatred for the Jews. What's up? Should Palestine be admitted to the U.N.?
Yes.
No.

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Drink child, drink.

One of so many "ultimate" parenting questions but which affects everybody, and recognizing that not all "children" are the same. At what age should buying and drinking alcohol be legal?

Select one and click on "Submit Survey"! Thanks!

No age; do not have a law on this.
14.
15
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.

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LawSurvey: Old v. New

Duhaime.org is proud to announce the launch of our new design:

Using minimalist elements, it quickly delivers content within a snappy, crisp design. Added bonus: it works really well on tablets and smart-phones; i.e. iPad/iPhone/Android.

Now to the question - which do you like better?

Old Design
New Design
New Design but something is broken...

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Was the Killing of Osama Bin Laden Lawful? - LawOpinion

Consider the facts in The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. In your heart or mind, are you "OK" with the May 2, 2011 killing of Osama Bin Laden?
Yes.
No.

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Opinion Poll: Judicial Salaries

A school teacher's annual salary is about $70,000 as is that of a police officer. Federal judges make $271,000 annually, at least (FYI: courtrooms open at 10 am and close at 4 or 4:30 pm and are also shut down at lunch for 90 minutes). What do you think about judge's salaries?
They need much more to be fair.
A bit more would be fairer.
The amount is just right.
The annual salary is a little on the high side.
The annual salary they get is way too much.

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Lawyers Judging Lawyers

There are some miserable, dud lawyers out there (luckily few in number). Some rack up everybody's legal bill by keeping the DEFCON level elevated. Others just plain leave you scratching your head. From your experience or that of others, can the law society be trusted to really investigate one of their own when seized with a complaint?

Yes.
No.

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Adult Guardianship: Choosing A Guardian

Should men and women be enabled to freely sell access to their bodies for sexual purposes (i.e. should we decriminalize prostitution)?
Yes
No

For a judge trying to resolve who, of several candidates for guardianship should be appointed for a mentally incapable senior, which of the following factors should be most important:
Whether the candidate is of the same gender as the senior.
Which of at-home or institutional care the candidate favours.
Whether the candidate has a financial conflict of interest with the senior.
Whether the candidate has fostered acrimony within the senior’s extended family.
The views of the senior if expressed before incapacity set in.
The candidate’s approach to the medical care of the senior as either hands-on or deferring to doctors.

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Should Pit Bulls be banned?

Claiming that they are inherently dangerous and unpredictable, some jurisdictions ban pit bulls (read this). Should pit bulls be banned?
Yes.
No.

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Help! Wise Name Needed!

We need to name a new dictionary to house and hi-light legal terms which relate to aboriginal or indigenous people or first nations or Indians or …. which do you prefer:
Aboriginal Law Dictionary
First Nations Law Dictionary
Indian Law Dictionary
Indigenous Law Dictionary
Indigenous People Law Dictionary
Native Law Dictionary

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The Serial Killer

Would you be in favour of the death penalty for those who have been convicted on conclusive scientific evidence for the thought-out and intentional murder of more than one person?
Yes.
No.

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The Great Neutral Citation Debate.

A great debate rages between courts, law librarians and private law report publishers to replace arbitrary and commercial legal citations (eg. D.L.R., E.R or F. Supp.) with neutral citations which are Court-specific: to each judgment is assigned a simple, unique and logical legal citation based on the date of publication of judgments in each year [for example, 2006 WI 86 instead of 717 N.W.2d (WI, 2006)]. Do you favor an change to neutral citations or shall we stay with the status quo of general
Status quo.
Neutral citations.

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For more on all this, visit Duhaime's Legal Citations or the Legal Definition of Legal Citation and the Legal Definition of Neutral Citation or even pay a visit to our homage page of John West, the grand-daddy of commercial legal citations.

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Weekly Law Survey: Fess Up!

Time to come clean. Have you ever stolen anything; intentionally and for no reason other than to just take it, taken something that you know belongs to someone else, as a child or as an adult?
Yes.
No.

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Weekly Law Poll & Survey: Who's A Lawyer?!

I often wonder how many legal professionals use duhaime.org. Help me out here! Select one as it applies to you:
I have a university law school degree.
I don't have a law school degree but I work in the legal field or within the justice system.
I'm none of the above but I still count!

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Weekly Survey/Poll: Impaired Driving

FEB 18, 2010: What ought to be the sentence for a first-time offender on a drunk driving conviction (aka impaired driving, DUI etc., a person caught driving while under the influence of alcohol), no injuries involved:
At the judge’s discretion
A fine
A driving license suspension
A prison term

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NHL player Nicholas Khabibulin recently got nailed with a DUI, see the history of DUIs in the NHL

Weekly Law Poll: Common, civil, Muslim ....

FEB 5, 2010: Scenario: You’ve just been named ruler of a freshly independent, large island with a hundred thousand inhabitants but no real justice system. The island has no major trading partners and is equidistant from civil law, common law and Islamic law jurisdictions. You have to decide what type of law this new country shall have. You choose:
A civil law system
A common law system
An Islamic, Muslim and Sharia law system

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Weekly Law Poll & Survey: The Burqa Question

FEB 2, 2010: The original theory behind the Muslim religion’s full-head covering for women-only (the BIRQA and the NIQAB), is to shield the facial features of a pubescent female from the lust of men (other than the husband). Turkey, Tunisia and the Netherlands have banned the Burqa and Niqab. Others say it is a matter of freedom. Should there be a ban on the wearing of the Niqab or Burqa in free and democratic societies such as Canada and the USA?
No.
Yes.

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Weekly Law Poll

1. JAN 21, 2010: First Nations, aboriginals, Natives, Indians - by whatever name is politically correct, Canada's First Nations have been clamoring for their own justice system, presumably for their own people, creating a dual justice system akin somewhat to the exclusive jurisdiction of Muslim law to Muslims-only in some countries. Should Canadian Natives have their own justice system, available only to Natives?

Yes (13)

21%

No (34)

56%

Partially, in select areas only. (14)

23%

Duhaime Lawisms

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in dissent in Abrams v United States, 250 U.S. 616 at page 629 (1919)

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