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By accessing or using CourtStLegal.com ("Court St Legal," the "Site," "we," "us," or "our"), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with these Terms, you should discontinue use of the Site.
These Terms apply to visitors, readers, contributors, persons submitting information, and anyone else who accesses or interacts with the Site.
2. Nature of Court St Legal
Court St Legal is an informational, journalistic, investigative, and legal-news publication. The Site may publish reporting, commentary, analysis, public records, court documents, government records, photographs, videos, investigative materials, and other information concerning matters of public interest.
Articles may concern pending litigation, criminal proceedings, regulatory actions, government investigations, allegations, disputes, public officials, companies, organizations, and private individuals involved in matters considered newsworthy or of public interest.
3. No Legal Advice
Court St Legal does not provide legal advice and use of this website does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Information published on this Site is provided for informational, educational, journalistic, and news-reporting purposes only.
Articles discussing statutes, regulations, court decisions, lawsuits, criminal cases, administrative proceedings, or other legal matters should not be relied upon as a substitute for advice from a qualified attorney familiar with the particular facts and law applicable to your circumstances.
Laws change, court decisions may be reversed or modified, proceedings may remain pending, and information available at the time of publication may later change.
4. Accuracy and Developing Information
Court St Legal endeavors to publish accurate information based upon the materials reasonably available at the time of publication.
News and investigative reporting is inherently subject to change. Court proceedings, investigations, regulatory actions, and other events may develop after an article is published.
Court St Legal may update, clarify, correct, supplement, or remove material at any time.
5. Allegations, Charges, and Pending Proceedings
Some Court St Legal reporting concerns allegations contained in lawsuits, indictments, complaints, administrative proceedings, government reports, regulatory actions, interviews, public records, or other sources.
An allegation is not necessarily an established fact.
A criminal charge or indictment is an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in accordance with law.
Court St Legal attempts, where appropriate, to distinguish allegations and unresolved claims from matters established through guilty pleas, verdicts, judgments, administrative findings, settlements, or other adjudicated proceedings.
6. Public Records and Source Materials
Court St Legal frequently relies upon public records and source materials, including court filings, judicial opinions, government publications, regulatory records, corporate records, public databases, administrative documents, and other materials obtained from public or lawful sources.
Where appropriate, Court St Legal may quote, summarize, reproduce, display, or link to such materials in connection with reporting, commentary, criticism, research, or matters of public interest.
The inclusion of a document or statement on this Site does not necessarily mean that Court St Legal independently adopts every assertion contained within that source.
7. Third-Party Sources and Links
The Site may contain links to government agencies, courts, businesses, organizations, social-media platforms, document repositories, news organizations, and other third-party websites.
Court St Legal does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for their availability, security, privacy practices, accuracy, or content.
8. Corrections and Responses
Court St Legal welcomes good-faith requests to review factual information contained in its reporting.
If you believe an article contains a factual error, you may contact us and identify the specific statement you believe is incorrect, together with any records or other information supporting the requested correction.
Submission of a correction request does not require Court St Legal to alter or remove material. Requests may be reviewed against available records, source materials, and other relevant information.
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Unless Court St Legal expressly agrees otherwise in writing, submitting material does not create a confidential, fiduciary, attorney-client, or other privileged relationship.
You should not submit information that you are legally prohibited from possessing, distributing, or providing to Court St Legal.
By voluntarily submitting material for potential publication or investigation, you represent that you have the lawful ability to provide the material.
Submission does not guarantee publication, investigation, response, confidentiality, or return of submitted material.
10. Copyright and Intellectual Property
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Readers may link to Court St Legal articles and may make reasonable quotations from articles for purposes such as commentary, criticism, discussion, reporting, research, or other uses permitted by law.
Republishing an entire original Court St Legal article, systematically copying substantial portions of the Site, or representing Court St Legal content as your own is prohibited unless authorized by Court St Legal or otherwise permitted by law.
11. Automated Access and Site Integrity
You may not use the Site in a manner intended to interfere with its operation, compromise its security, gain unauthorized access to administrative systems, overwhelm its infrastructure, or disrupt access by other users.
Prohibited conduct includes attempting to circumvent authentication or security measures, introducing malicious code, probing restricted systems without authorization, or using automated systems in a manner that materially disrupts normal operation of the Site.
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- to systematically reproduce original Court St Legal content in violation of applicable law.
13. Website Availability
Court St Legal does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access to the Site.
The Site, individual articles, documents, videos, images, databases, features, or other content may be modified, relocated, suspended, restricted, or removed at any time without notice.
14. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Site and its content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
Court St Legal makes no warranty that the Site will always be available, secure, error-free, complete, or suitable for any particular purpose.
Nothing published on the Site constitutes a guarantee concerning the outcome of any legal, regulatory, financial, governmental, or other proceeding.
15. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Court St Legal and its owners, contributors, editors, contractors, and affiliates shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or relating to your use of, inability to use, or reliance upon the Site or its content.
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16. Privacy
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Additional information concerning data practices may be provided in a separate Privacy Policy.
17. Changes to These Terms
Court St Legal may revise these Terms of Service from time to time.
Revised Terms become effective when posted to this page unless a different effective date is stated.
Continued use of the Site after revised Terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
18. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.
19. Contact
Questions concerning these Terms of Service may be submitted through the Court St Legal contact page.