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** In "Once, in St. Olaf," Sophia goes to the hospital for a hernia operation...and is promptly abandoned on an elevator for hours. To recap: an octogenarian woman recovering from surgery is left without food, water, or anyone ''knowing where she is'' for ''hours.'' The legality of the situation is briefly touched upon in the episode--two businesspeople inadvertently enter the elevator and express shock at Sophia's predicament, though they don't offer any help beyond saying they'll tell someone about the situation. That arguably makes it worse: the businesspeople, along with an orderly, apparently alert staff, but no one makes a serious effort to find her, and Dorothy and Blanche only stumble upon Sophia by complete accident. A lawsuit for gross negligence would be the absolute minimum that Dorothy and Sophia could bring down on the hospital, but future episodes never mention it.

** Harry is left to gross abuse and neglect by the Dursleys, without neighbors or anyone else apparently noticing or alerting the authorities. While putting him there makes sense (Petunia's his next of kin, plus the blood protection his mother left as her sister), Dumbledore never checking afterward doesn't, especially since he knows full well how some Muggles view magical people (his own sister was assaulted by Muggle boys, leaving her forever scarred), even if he wasn't aware they held the same attitudes. Even worse, Dumbledore ''knew'' the Dursleys were terrible people, as Professor [=McGonagall=] spent a day observing the family and outright told him that they were cruel and selfish: "You ''can't'' mean the people who live here." At the very least, letting them know ahead of time Harry would probably have magic and insuring they didn't mistreat him for it/could keep it secret is definitely something he should have done. Naturally, this is major FanFic fodder, sometimes even to the point of showing Harry as realistically very traumatized by his experiences (in some stories it stops him becoming a hero at all).

** There doesn't seem to be any laws in the universe concerning libel and defamation of character, judging from the fact that journalist Rita Skeeter is able to get away with outright fabricating any number of slanderous articles, down to publishing direct "quotes" which she made up wholesale. In the final book, she openly admits to drugging an elderly woman with a truth potion so she could force out potentially damaging information on Dumbledore. "Openly admits" means she outright includes it in the article she published for all to see. This one especially makes no sense, as use of truth potion is said to be "subject to strict Ministry guidelines"-presumably gutter journalism isn't a legitimate use. Of course the Ministry is also highly corrupt and incompetent at the best of times, and [[spoiler: has been taken over by the bad guys by this time.]]

* Principal Snyder on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is rather over-the-top in his freely-expressed hatred of students and the degree to which he openly and publicly gloats at the prospect of having them expelled. Possibly justified in that [[spoiler:the Mayor of Sunnydale is a century-old evil sorcerer actively plotting to transform himself into a giant snake-demon, and the entire town was founded in order to further his evil schemes]], so one can only assume that the Sunnydale School Board isn't likely to be very receptive to parental complaints.\\\
This is at one point subverted. After Buffy was expelled and Snyder refused to let her back Giles threatened to make a formal complaint. Snyder tells him to take it to the school board. Giles tells him he was thinking of the state supreme court. Snyder still refuses and only relents after Giles basically threatened to beat the crap out of him... which of course would get Giles fired in real life. Writer's convenience for the win!

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', someone put a "Kick Me" sign on George [=McFly=]'s back. As he walks down a hallway, half of the students are kicking him and the other half are laughing at him. Principal Strickland chews out George for the whole thing.

** In "Once, in St. Olaf," Sophia goes to the hospital for a hernia operation...and is promptly abandoned on an elevator for hours. To recap: an octogenarian woman recovering from surgery is left without food, water, or anyone ''knowing where she was'' for ''hours.'' The legality of the situation is briefly touched upon in the episode--two businesspeople inadvertently enter the elevator and express shock at Sophia's predicament, though they don't offer any help beyond saying they'll tell someone about the situation. That arguably makes it worse: the businesspeople, along with an orderly, apparently alert staff, but no one makes a serious effort to find her, and Dorothy and Blanche only stumble upon Sophia by complete accident. A lawsuit for gross negligence would be the absolute minimum that Dorothy and Sophia could bring down on the hospital, but future episodes never mention it.

* No one in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series seems to be particularly concerned by [[UnconventionalCourtroomTactics things like]] Manfred von Karma overriding the judge, his daughter Franziska attacking everyone in sight with her whip, or Godot throwing his coffee cup across the room to land on the defense's head.

->''"Critic, you know, sometimes life'' is ''like that. Life can be tough; life can be cruel; life could throw [[NoodleImplements lobster costumes and nipple tasers]] into your reality."''

* No one in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series seems to be particularly concerned by [[UnconventionalCourtroomTactics things like]] Manfred von Karma overriding the judge, his daughter Franziska attacking everyone in sight with her [[WhipItGood whip]], or Godot throwing his coffee cup across the room to land on the defense's head.

** Eric Cartman has beaten up multiple students, harassed a bunch of them into committing suicide, infected Kyle with [=AIDS=] out of spite, amputated a fellow classmate for no good reason, spread toxic propaganda, sabotaged multiple serious presentations, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking gets lackluster grades]] among other things, and yet he has ''never'' faced expulsion. Granted, [[AdultsAreUseless most of the staff are already too inept to deal with anything anyway]].

** Despite all the horrible things he's done on school grounds (beating up numerous students, driving them to suicide, spitefully infecting one of them with [=AIDS=] and amputating another, spreading toxic propaganda, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking getting lackluster grades]] among other things), Eric Cartman has ''never'' faced expulsion. Granted, [[AdultsAreUseless most of the staff are already too inept to deal with anything anyway]].

** It's amazing Cartman has never been expelled from South Park Elementary, given he had dismembered a student for calling him chubby, purposely infected Kyle with [=HIV=], bullied numerous students to suicide, etc. To be fair, considering how inept most of the school staff are, this is fairly explainable.