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Emergency Medical Care For Indigents: All Hospitals Must Provide Stabilizing Treatment Or Pay The Price, James P. Mchugh Sep 1990

Emergency Medical Care For Indigents: All Hospitals Must Provide Stabilizing Treatment Or Pay The Price, James P. Mchugh

West Virginia Law Review

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Hospital Liability For Defamation Of Character During The Peer Review Process: Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But Words May Cost Me My Job Apr 1990

Hospital Liability For Defamation Of Character During The Peer Review Process: Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But Words May Cost Me My Job

West Virginia Law Review

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Synthesizing Related Rules From Statutes And Cases For Legal Expert Systems, Layman E. Allen, Sallyanne Payton, Charles S. Saxon Jan 1990

Synthesizing Related Rules From Statutes And Cases For Legal Expert Systems, Layman E. Allen, Sallyanne Payton, Charles S. Saxon

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Different legal expert systems may be incompatible with each other: A user in characterizing the same situation by answering the questions presented in a consultation can be led to contradictory inferences. Such systems can be ”synthesized’ to help users avoid such contradictions by alerting them that other relevant systems are available to be consulted as they are responding to questions. An example of potentially incompatible, related legal expert systems is presented here - ones for the New Jersey murder statute and the celebrated Quinlan case, along with one way of synthesizing them to avoid such incompatibility.