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The Constitutionality Of Missouri Protective Statutes Of Child Abuse Victim Testimony In Criminal Trials, Vanessa Marie Starke Ms.
The Constitutionality Of Missouri Protective Statutes Of Child Abuse Victim Testimony In Criminal Trials, Vanessa Marie Starke Ms.
Vanessa Marie Starke Ms.
The Supreme Court decision in Iowa v. Coy and its subsequent holding in Maryland v. Craig found that the confrontation clause of the United States Constitution, like other rights, is not absolute. The Court determined that in some circumstances and under certain procedural conditions, a state’s interest in protecting a child abuse victim might permit the child to testify via video deposition. The cases were in reaction to the passage in many states of protective statutes allowing for such procedures in child-abuse prosecutions.
Missouri is one of the states that had passed such statutes prior to the Supreme Court decisions …
The Unconstitutionality Of Current Legal Barriers To Telemedicine In The United States: Analysis And Future Directions Of Its Relationship To National And International Health Care Reform, Deth Sao, Amar Gupta
The Unconstitutionality Of Current Legal Barriers To Telemedicine In The United States: Analysis And Future Directions Of Its Relationship To National And International Health Care Reform, Deth Sao, Amar Gupta
Deth Sao
The current health care crisis in the United States compels a consideration of the crucial role that telemedicine could play towards deploying a pragmatic solution. The nation faces rising costs and difficulties in access to and quality of medical services. Telemedicine can potentially help to overcome these challenges, as it can provide new cost-effective and efficient methods of delivering health care across geographic distances. The full benefits and future potential of telemedicine, however, are constrained by overlapping and often inconsistent and inadequate regulatory frameworks, as well as the repertoire of standards imposed by state governments and professional organizations. Proponents of …
Law's Autonomy, Ashok Agrwaal
Law's Autonomy, Ashok Agrwaal
Ashok Agrwaal
Like entropy, autonomy exists. As such, the existence of autonomy does not need any law or laws, beyond itself and its nature. Autonomy can, therefore, be said to be an "original" state of human kind; or at least of the individual. Law, which is frequently seen as preserving/ maximising/ conferring autonomy is actually a device to usurp autonomy. The paper looks at a specific example of how the nation-state, the most powerful usurper of autonomies created till date, arrogates autonomy to itself, in the name of ‘public interest’. Needless to say, in the hands of the state, autonomy translates into …