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A Dichotomy In Consumer Protection - The Drug Device Definition Dilemma, Ronald L. Styn

Indiana Law Journal

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Parent-Child Immunity: The Case For Abolition, Christine V. Pate

San Diego Law Review

"However repugnant it may seem that a minor child should sue his own father, it is equally repugnant that a child injured by his parent's negligence, perhaps maimed for life should have no redress for the injury he has suffered." This anomaly exists today in the majority of jurisdictions which recognize the parent-child immunity. The origins of this rule, its exceptions and its present status nationwide and in California reflect a judicial determination not to interfere with the basic unit of our society, the family.

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Book Reviews, William L. Shaw, Cephus L. Stephens

Vanderbilt Law Review

BOOK REVIEWS

LITTLE GROUPS OF NEIGHBORS: THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM. By James W. Davis, Jr. and Kenneth M. Dolbeare. Markham Publishing Co., Chicago, 1968. Pp. 268.

reviewer: William L. Shaw

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THE SUPREME COURT AND THE NEWS MEDIA. By David L. Grey, Evansville: Northwestern University Press. 1968. Pp. 194. $5.95.

reviewer: Cephus L. Stephens

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The Abused Child: Problems And Proposals, Harvey J. Eger, Anthony J. Popeck

Duquesne Law Review

In 1962 a team of physicians led by Dr. C. Henry Kempe identified problem they called "the battered child syndrome." The Kempe study defined the problem as a clinical condition in young children who have received serious physical abuse from a parent or foster parent. Graham Parker, a student of the syndrome, defined the battered child as "one who has suffered serious physical injury in circumstances which indicate it was caused wilfully [sic] rather than by accident." Later students have distinguished the battered or abused child from the neglected child and have begun to inquire into the psychological condition of …

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