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It Started With Quinlan: The Ever Expanding 'Right To Die', Yale Kamisar Jan 1996

It Started With Quinlan: The Ever Expanding 'Right To Die', Yale Kamisar

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Few rallying cries sound more straightforward than the "right to die"-but few are more fuzzy or more misunderstood. This becomes all too evident when comparing the right-to-die decision handed down by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month and the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in the Karen Ann Quinlan case twenty years ago. At different times, the "right to die" has embraced significantly different rights. On March 6, in Compassion in Dying v. Washington State, the Ninth Circuit held that because a Washington state statute prohibiting assisted suicide prevents physicians from providing assistance to competent, terminally …


Genetic Confidentiality: What's The Big Secret?, Paul A. Lombardo Jan 1996

Genetic Confidentiality: What's The Big Secret?, Paul A. Lombardo

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Uncertain Privacy: Communication Attributes After The Digital Telephony Act, Susan Freiwald Dec 1995

Uncertain Privacy: Communication Attributes After The Digital Telephony Act, Susan Freiwald

Susan Freiwald

This article argues that the coming tide of electronic Federal law protects the privacy of transmitted communications under a two-tiered system. The actual contents of communications occupy the first tier, where they enjoy fairly effective protection against disclosure. Communication attributes encompass all of the other information that can be learned about a communication, such as when and where it occurred, to whom and from whom it was sent and how long it lasted. They occupy a lowly second tier, where the protections against disclosure are weak, ambiguous and in some cases non-existent. This bifurcated system becomes increasingly untenable as advances …


Derecho En La Era Digital, Horacio M. Lynch Dec 1995

Derecho En La Era Digital, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

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