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Hospital Emergency Service And The Open Door, Leonard S. Powers May 1968

Hospital Emergency Service And The Open Door, Leonard S. Powers

Michigan Law Review

This Article will focus on the emerging duty of hospital emergency rooms to treat patients seeking their aid.


Escalation Of Welfare Warfare: The Case Of The Recent Resident, Anon Apr 1968

Escalation Of Welfare Warfare: The Case Of The Recent Resident, Anon

Washington Law Review

Vivian Marie Thompson, plaintiff, migrated from Boston, Massachusetts to Hartford, Connecticut to be near her mother. She arrived without prospect of specific employment or sufficient funds to maintain herself and her child while attempting to locate work. During her residency in Boston, she received financial support under a jointlyfunded state-federal program of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC). When she applied for similar assistance in Hartford her request was denied by defendant, Connecticut's Commissioner of Welfare, because she had not been a resident of the state for one year as required by Connecticut law. plaintiff brought suit in the United States …


Escalation Of Welfare Warfare: The Case Of The Recent Resident, Anon Apr 1968

Escalation Of Welfare Warfare: The Case Of The Recent Resident, Anon

Washington Law Review

Vivian Marie Thompson, plaintiff, migrated from Boston, Massachusetts to Hartford, Connecticut to be near her mother. She arrived without prospect of specific employment or sufficient funds to maintain herself and her child while attempting to locate work. During her residency in Boston, she received financial support under a jointly-funded state-federal program of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC). When she applied for similar assistance in Hartford her request was denied by defendant, Connecticut's Commissioner of Welfare, because she had not been a resident of the state for one year as required by Connecticut law. plaintiff brought suit in the United States …


Maintaining Welfare Families' Income In Kentucky: A Study Of The Relationship Between Afdc Grants And Support Payments From Absent Parents, Woodford L. Gardner Jr. Jan 1968

Maintaining Welfare Families' Income In Kentucky: A Study Of The Relationship Between Afdc Grants And Support Payments From Absent Parents, Woodford L. Gardner Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Slumlordism As A Tort--A Dissenting View, Walter J. Blum, Allison Dunham Jan 1968

Slumlordism As A Tort--A Dissenting View, Walter J. Blum, Allison Dunham

Michigan Law Review

The persistence of substandard housing in urban centers stands as a challenge to law. There is a pressing need to re-examine whether prevailing legal doctrines are adequate for dealing with the problem and to suggest new doctrines where the old are found wanting. To their great credit, Joseph L. Sax and Fred J. Hiestand in their article "Slumlordism as a Tort" face up to these tasks boldly and vigorously. They conclude that, under existing conditions, it is imprudent to rely on public authorities to enforce housing codes and it is unlikely that legislatures will place sufficient enforcement powers in private …


Slumlordism As A Tort--A Brief Response, Joseph L. Sax Jan 1968

Slumlordism As A Tort--A Brief Response, Joseph L. Sax

Michigan Law Review

Professors Blum and Dunham begin their comment by accusing us of having a new idea. We plead guilty. Our purpose was to demonstrate that accepted principles in analogous areas of law would support a slumlordism action, not to argue that tort law as presently applied would do so. Indeed, our basic intent was to underscore the myopia of existing tort law perspectives.