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Breast Implants As Beauty Ritual: Woman's Sceptre And Prison, Julie M. Spanbauer Nov 2015

Breast Implants As Beauty Ritual: Woman's Sceptre And Prison, Julie M. Spanbauer

Julie M. Spanbauer

In the past several years, various publications, including medical literature, television reports, newspaper articles, and even a book written by a physician and editor of a prestigious medical journal, have delivered roughly the same message to the public about silicone gel breast implants: they do not cause disease. According to these publications, the issue is all but closed. They claim that the earlier litigation documenting the dangers of silicone and the misdeeds of surgeons, as well as exposing greedy and fraudulent behavior of corporations such as Dow Coming, was apparently either in error or was itself a fraud perpetrated upon …


Selling Sex: Analyzing The Improper Use Defense To Contract Enforcement Through The Lens Of Carroll V. Beardon, 59 Clev. St. L. Rev. 693 (2011), Julie M. Spanbauer May 2015

Selling Sex: Analyzing The Improper Use Defense To Contract Enforcement Through The Lens Of Carroll V. Beardon, 59 Clev. St. L. Rev. 693 (2011), Julie M. Spanbauer

Julie M. Spanbauer

The 1963 decision of the Supreme Court of Montana in Carroll v. Beardon occupies less than three full pages in the Pacific Reporter and involves a simple real estate transaction in which a "madam" sold a house used for prostitution to another "madam." The opinion is the last in a long line of cases which speak specifically to the issue of enforcement of facially legitimate contracts that in some manner involve or are related to prostitution. It is commonly cited in treatises and hornbooks as representative of the movement by courts toward enforcement of such contracts under the law of …


Breast Implants As Beauty Ritual: Woman's Sceptre And Prison, 9 Yale J.L. & Feminism 157 (1997), Julie M. Spanbauer May 2015

Breast Implants As Beauty Ritual: Woman's Sceptre And Prison, 9 Yale J.L. & Feminism 157 (1997), Julie M. Spanbauer

Julie M. Spanbauer

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Scarlett O'Hara As Feminist: The Contradictory, Normalizing Force Of Law And Culture, 5 Law Text Culture 45 (2001), Julie Spanbauer May 2015

Scarlett O'Hara As Feminist: The Contradictory, Normalizing Force Of Law And Culture, 5 Law Text Culture 45 (2001), Julie Spanbauer

Julie M. Spanbauer

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