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Legislative Developments In The Regulation Of Insurance Coverage: Will These New Regulations Benefit Women With Breast Cancer? , Julia Anastasio

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Judicial Review Of Fda Preemption Determinations, Amanda Frost

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Identifying The Enemy In The War On Drugs: A Critique Of The Developing Rule Permitting Visual Identification Of Indescript White Powder In Narcotics Prosecutions , Michael D. Blanchard, Gabriel J. Chin

American University Law Review

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Unitedstates V. Ursery: Drug Offenders Forfeit Their Fifth Amendment Rights , Sean M. Dunn

American University Law Review

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The Drug Courier Profile: In Planes, Trains, And Automobiles; And Now In The Jury Box , Mark J. Kadish

American University Law Review

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Crime And Punishment: Benign Neglect Of Racism In The Criminal Justice System, Angela J. Davis

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This article is a literary review and analysis of Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America by Michael Tonry (1995). Part I of this review describes Tonry's analysis of the crime policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations. Part II discusses Tonry's indictment of the War on Drugs and criticizes his failure to acknowledge the effects of discriminatory prosecutorial practices and sentencing laws. Part III critiques Tonry's trivialization of the significance of race discrimination in the criminal justice system more generally. Part IV summarizes Tonry's proposals for change and stresses the importance of documenting, examining, and eliminating racial bias …

Drug Addiction During Pregnancy: A Call For Increased Social Responsibility, Page Mcguire Linden

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Anatomy Of A Regulatory Program: Comment On 'Strategic Regulators And The Choice Of Rulemaking Procedures', Jeffrey Lubbers

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Besides being a very interesting, cogent, and even a tidy study, "Strategic Regulators" sheds some bright light on agency behavior and on the important issue of whether agency rulemaking may be "ossifying."

The study design employed by Hamilton and Schroeder is attractively simple. They started with all of the Environmental Protection Agency's ("EPA's") hazardous waste regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA") appearing in the Code of Federal Regulations ("CFR"), counting each decimal point CFR number as a separate rule. This yielded 697 rules. They then examined all EPA/RCRA guidance documents issued since the inception of the program …

The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine And Mandating Norplant For Women On Welfare Discourse, Laurence C. Nolan

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Improving Substance Abuse Treatment For Women, Brenda V. Smith

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Alcohol and other drug use among women of child-bearing age has increased dramatically, and, as a result, more pregnant women are faced with alcohol and other drug problems. The only known national estimate suggests that 11 percent of pregnant women used illegal drugs during their pregnancy. Although pregnant crack-addicted women have received the most media attention, the problem is no less serious for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug use during pregnancy has negative physical and psychological consequences for both the mother and the child. Alcoholic mothers are at risk of having infants with fetal alcohol syndrome, which …