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What is a motion hearing?

In the state of Maine, when are sex offenders required not to register?

My husband and I own a small business, a film processing photo lab. A new customer came in with several large boxes filled with old 35mm slides, which she asked us to scan onto CD. After several minutes of trying to count how many slides were in the boxes, she handed them over and said "just scan them all" I told her the price was $1.50 per slide. I told her I would call her to let her know how many slides there were, but she know there were hundreds, just by looking at the volume of boxes. I gave her a "call tag" with the date that the work would be ready, April 2nd at 4pm. I sent the slides upstairs to our lab and asked the technician to do the scans. I did not ask the technician to count the slides first. The work was done, and as there were 674 slides, the total came to $1,011. The customer came back to collect her work at the appointed time, clearly assuming it was done. When I presented her with the finished work and the bill, she then remembered that I was supposed to call her with the total. I apologized for not calling, but noted that if she was concerned about the price, knowing it was $1.50 each and she had hundreds of slides, why did she not follow up and call us to see what the total was before agreeing to have the work done? She clearly came in expecting that the work was finished, handing us her call tag and saying that she was here to pick up an order. Obviously she was surprised by the price, and now just wants to take her slides back and not pay for the finished work. My position, as the owner of a business who did the work in good faith because she brought her slides to us and requested that they all be scanned, feel that we should be paid for the work that was performed at her request. I was willing to give her a discount of 10%, but she just wants her original slides back and not to have to pay us at all. Can I sue her in small claims court for the amount the customer owes us?

I was involved in a one car accident that resulted because my tire blew. I was traveling when all of a sudden my car started to swerve. I hit the brakes because I didn't know what had happened. I tried to get the car to stop. When I applied the brakes the car swerved worse and went slightly into the left center lane. I managed to get my car back on my side but it was swerving so bad the car jumped an embankment and ended up in a drainage ditch. When the cop arrived he issued me a citation for crossing the left center lane and written on the citation under the heading accident he wrote, no. I was wondering if I hire a lawyer whether i can fight that in court? He told me that if my insurance paid to fix my vehicle they would dismiss it in court. However, my insurance company has decided to total my car. Should I consult a lawyer and fight this in court?

Where do you get legal definitions? I looked up the definition of Verbal Abuse and although helpful, I would like to see some citings on where it is found in an actual law book.