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The Community Service Obligation Of Hill-Burton Health Facilities, Ken Wing Jan 1982

The Community Service Obligation Of Hill-Burton Health Facilities, Ken Wing

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This article focuses squarely on the community service provision and the regulations promulgated thereunder. The analysis traces the statutory and regulatory history of the community service obligation and examines the scope of the discretion that has been delegated to federal and state agencies to define and enforce this obligation. The discussion begins with a brief history of the original Hill-Burton program and the several amendments and modifications of the program over the last several decades. Next, the legislative history of the community service obligation is examined in an effort to determine the scope of authority created by Congress in establishing …

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Law And Morals: The Perennial And Necessary Tandem, Peter J. Riga Jan 1979

Law And Morals: The Perennial And Necessary Tandem, Peter J. Riga

Seattle University Law Review

The relationship between law and morality has never been terribly clear in the American mind. On one hand, there has been the attempt simply to identify the two. On the other hand, there has existed a deep suspicion of all attempts to relate the two. Traditional Western jurisprudence, at least before Austin, tried to follow a middle course between these two extremes. It is particularly important today, when law occupies such an important dimension in American life, that lawyers once again reexamine this relationship. Law is infinitely more than procedural technique; but it is something less than a religion or …

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The Implicit Teaching Of Utopian Speculations: Rousseau's Contribution To The Natural Law Tradition, Thomas E. Carbonneau Jan 1979

The Implicit Teaching Of Utopian Speculations: Rousseau's Contribution To The Natural Law Tradition, Thomas E. Carbonneau

Seattle University Law Review

Legal philosophers, especially of the positivist variety, traditionally have assumed that the proponents of natural law theory present too facile an answer to the vexed question of whether an unjust law can be said to exist when it is duly sanctioned by legal and political authority. If not disappointed by the answer itself, they have been most unhappy with the explanation that accompanies it and, indeed, are prepared to challenge the very foundations of a theory of law which pays so little heed—either empirically or in terms of pure logic—to the actual operations of existing legal systems. Kant initiated the …

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National Health Planning And Resources Development Act Of 1974: Implications For The Poor, Ken Wing, A. G. Schneider Jan 1976

National Health Planning And Resources Development Act Of 1974: Implications For The Poor, Ken Wing, A. G. Schneider

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The National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974, was signed into law on January 4, 1975, following a lengthy legislative struggle. During the past 11 months, the fighting among private and public health interests has continued, although the principal arena has shifted from the Congress to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which is charged with primary responsibility for implementing the law. While the final outcome of this political conflict is still difficult to foresee, some informed estimates can already be made concerning the implications of this legislation for the poor. This article will not summarize the …

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Victimless Crimes: A Proposal To Free The Courts, Robert C. Boruchowitz Jan 1973

Victimless Crimes: A Proposal To Free The Courts, Robert C. Boruchowitz

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Victimless "crimes"—acts that are presently outside the law but which have no readily identifiable victim—account for almost half of the cases handled by United States courts. They include behavior which may reflect illness and which requires medical and therapeutic attention (such as drunkenness), as well as behavior condemned as varying from moral or social standards and leading to harmful behavior (such as vagrancy and curfew violations). If the burden of regulating this type of behavior were removed from the criminal justice system, perhaps one half of the courts' current case load could be eliminated. Furthermore, persons caught in deviant conduct …

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Universities, Law Schools, Communities: Learning Or Service Or Learning And Service?, Henry Mcgee Jan 1969

Universities, Law Schools, Communities: Learning Or Service Or Learning And Service?, Henry Mcgee

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This article addresses the roles of universities and law schools and their changing roles in society. While many universities and law schools are assuming leadership roles in national and even global communities, the new challenge is their responsibility to the communities they reside in.

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Lay Advocacy And "Legal Services To Youth": Summaries On The Use Of Para-Legal Aides, Henry Mcgee Jan 1969

Lay Advocacy And "Legal Services To Youth": Summaries On The Use Of Para-Legal Aides, Henry Mcgee

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This article discusses the incredibly effective use of legal assistants in the project implemented to assist poor urban youth with legal issues—Legal Services to Youth sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School's Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, under a Ford Foundation grant, was directed to a specialized consumer group, boys under 17 and girls under 18, the jurisdictional age ceiling in the Cook County, Illinois Juvenile Court. Legal assistants were recruited in the area served, and an attempt was made to locate persons who were by background and experience likely to be sympathetic to youth "in trouble." The …

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