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Stunning Trends In Shocking Crimes: A Comprehensive Analysis Of Taser Weapons, Shaun H. Kedir
Stunning Trends In Shocking Crimes: A Comprehensive Analysis Of Taser Weapons, Shaun H. Kedir
Journal of Law and Health
In 2001, Westminster, Colorado police officers were dispatched to the home of a suicidal thirteen year-old girl who had barricaded herself in a bathroom. The young girl was mutilating her wrist with two butcher knives. When police officers forced their way into the bathroom, the emotionally disturbed girl charged at them with the two butcher knives while screaming, "Kill me! Kill me!." One of the officers deployed a Taser M26, a hand held conductive energy weapon, which fires two barbed darts up to a distance of thirty-five feet that then deliver an electric shock of 50,000 volts. The officer's Taser …
Confusion In The Courts: What To Do With Hiv-Positive And Aids-Infected Public Employees , Erika J. Crandall
Confusion In The Courts: What To Do With Hiv-Positive And Aids-Infected Public Employees , Erika J. Crandall
Journal of Law and Health
This paper is divided into five sections. Part one deals with background information on AIDS. Part two discusses current federal legislation. Part three examines how AIDS falls under federal legislation and case law, including the resulting impact of hiring AIDS-infected individuals. Part four evaluates possible violations of the Fourth Amendment resulting from the federal legislation and from an employer's mandatory testing of employees for the HIV virus. The last section discusses the government's liability when a public employee transmits AIDS to another individual during the course of employment.
Accessing Genomic Information Or Safeguarding Genetic Privacy, George P. Smith Ii
Accessing Genomic Information Or Safeguarding Genetic Privacy, George P. Smith Ii
Journal of Law and Health
The real-although often exaggerated-threats to genetic privacy, and the resulting forms of geneticdiscrimination, posed as a consequence of research in this field, can be contained by careful development and application of legal norms through legislative schemes at the state and federal levels of government. In partnership, law and science should seek to develop a contemporary agenda for social change that also seeks to fulfill socio-political goals.When viewed as but a tool for enhancing the health of the nation's citizens, and of engineering humanity's genetic weaknesses out of the line of inheritance, biological determinism is an absolute necessity for trans-national survival …
Constitutional Concerns In Drug Testing, Gordon J. Beggs
Constitutional Concerns In Drug Testing, Gordon J. Beggs
Journal of Law and Health
*this is not an article, rather a summary of recent case law and authority"
Testing For Drugs Of Abuse: Methods And Reliability, Edward A. Kaufman
Testing For Drugs Of Abuse: Methods And Reliability, Edward A. Kaufman
Journal of Law and Health
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the entire testing process, from specimen collection and preparation (vital processes that are often beyond the control of the laboratory) to test methods, quality assurance measures, medico-legal documentation, and result reporting and interpretation. Each of these steps demands careful attention, and the hallmark of a responsible, quality-conscious laboratory is that it can offer a complete testing system that focuses not only on the assays themselves but also on each of the necessary precautions and transactions so crucial to the viability of test results.