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Advance Medical Directives In West Virginia, Part One, Irene M. Keely Jun 1992

Advance Medical Directives In West Virginia, Part One, Irene M. Keely

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The New Aids Look Back Statute: Contact Tracing In The Health Care Setting - A Step In The Wrong Direction, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 769 (1992), Margery M. Tamburro Jan 1992

The New Aids Look Back Statute: Contact Tracing In The Health Care Setting - A Step In The Wrong Direction, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 769 (1992), Margery M. Tamburro

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Experimenting With The "Right To Die" In The Laboratory Of The States, Thomas A. Eaton, Edward J. Larson Jul 1991

Experimenting With The "Right To Die" In The Laboratory Of The States, Thomas A. Eaton, Edward J. Larson

Scholarly Works

The purposes of this Article are twofold. Our first purpose is to reexamine the legal foundations of a patient's right to refuse treatment. The Court's equivocal handling of the federal constitutional issues in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health invites a closer look at state constitutional, statutory and common law. The source of the underlying right will affect state experimentation with substantive and procedural rules in this area. Our second purpose is to describe the current status of the states' experiments with the right to die. That is, we elaborate in more detail on the state constitutional, statutory and …


Suicide, Liberty And Our Imperfect Constitution: An Analysis Of The Legitimacy Of The Supreme Court's Entanglement In Decisions To Terminate Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment, Terrance A. Kline Jan 1991

Suicide, Liberty And Our Imperfect Constitution: An Analysis Of The Legitimacy Of The Supreme Court's Entanglement In Decisions To Terminate Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment, Terrance A. Kline

Campbell Law Review

As the law developed in the states, the Supreme Court of the United States, in its 1990 opinion in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, determined that there exists a right to terminate life-sustaining medical treatment under the United States Constitution. As a result of the decision, new uncertainties have been infused into the state legislative and judicial responses to the issue. After examining the Cruzan decision below, I probe the constitutional legitimacy and the prudence of the Supreme Court's role in decisions relating to the termination of life-sustaining medical treatment. I conclude that the Court in Cruzan, though …


Free Exercise Of Religion Jan 1991

Free Exercise Of Religion

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


When Is There A Constitutional 'Right To Die'? When Is There No Constitutional 'Right To Live'?, Yale Kamisar Jan 1991

When Is There A Constitutional 'Right To Die'? When Is There No Constitutional 'Right To Live'?, Yale Kamisar

Articles

When I am invited to participate in conferences on the "right to die," I suspect that the organizers of such gatherings expect me to fill what might be called the " 'slippery slope' slot" on the program or, more generally, to articulate the "conservative" position on this controversial matter. These expectations are hardly surprising. The "right to die" is a euphemism for what almost everybody used to call a form of euthanasia-" passive" or "negative" or "indirect" euthanasia-and some thirty years ago, in the course of raising various objections to proposed euthanasia legislation, I advanced the "thin edge of the …


Utah Government Immunity Act And Government Hospitals: Condemarin V. University Hospital, Michael A. Royal May 1990

Utah Government Immunity Act And Government Hospitals: Condemarin V. University Hospital, Michael A. Royal

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Discrimination: The Difference With Aids, Raymond C. O'Brien Jan 1990

Discrimination: The Difference With Aids, Raymond C. O'Brien

Scholarly Articles

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Federal Preemption Of Prescrption Drug Labeling: Antidote For Pharmaceutical Industry Overdosing On State Court Jury Decisions In Products Liability Cases, 22 J. Marshall L. Rev. 629 (1989), John F. Del Giorno Jan 1989

Federal Preemption Of Prescrption Drug Labeling: Antidote For Pharmaceutical Industry Overdosing On State Court Jury Decisions In Products Liability Cases, 22 J. Marshall L. Rev. 629 (1989), John F. Del Giorno

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Does Competency Matter After Charters?, Michael L. Perlin, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1989

Does Competency Matter After Charters?, Michael L. Perlin, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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Bench Memorandum, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 940 (1988), Mark A. Absher Jan 1988

Bench Memorandum, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 940 (1988), Mark A. Absher

UIC Law Review

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Brief For Petitioner, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 955 (1988), L. Lee Byrd, Yvonne T. Griffin, G. Rodney Young Jan 1988

Brief For Petitioner, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 955 (1988), L. Lee Byrd, Yvonne T. Griffin, G. Rodney Young

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Unborn Child: Can You Be Protected?, Heather M. White Jan 1988

Unborn Child: Can You Be Protected?, Heather M. White

University of Richmond Law Review

Continuing medical advancement in the area of prenatal care' raises the question of when, if ever, the state may intervene in the life of a pregnant woman to protect her unborn child from abuse and neglect. This issue, though troublesome, can no longer be ignored. Since the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, giving the pregnant woman the constitutional right to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy, there has been abundant controversy over the allowance of state intervention to protect the human fetus. This controversy necessarily entails a discussion as to when and in what manner the …


The Intentional Creation Of Fetal Tissue For Transplants: The Womb As A Fetus Farm, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 853 (1988), James David Roberts Jan 1988

The Intentional Creation Of Fetal Tissue For Transplants: The Womb As A Fetus Farm, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 853 (1988), James David Roberts

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection Challenges To Legislative Abrogation Of The Collateral Source Rule Sep 1987

Equal Protection Challenges To Legislative Abrogation Of The Collateral Source Rule

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection Challenges To Legislative Abrogation Of The Collateral Source Rule Sep 1987

Equal Protection Challenges To Legislative Abrogation Of The Collateral Source Rule

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comments: Blasting The Cap: Constitutional Issues Arising From Maryland's Limitation Of Noneconomic Damages In Personal Injury Claims, James R. Andersen Jan 1987

Comments: Blasting The Cap: Constitutional Issues Arising From Maryland's Limitation Of Noneconomic Damages In Personal Injury Claims, James R. Andersen

University of Baltimore Law Review

A topic of fervent debate in recent years has been the growing crisis in personal injury liability insurance, particularly in the area of medical malpractice. Insurers, doctors, and lawyers have presented differing theories as to the cause and solution of the problem. In 1986, the Maryland General Assembly sought to resolve the crisis by limiting the amount recoverable for noneconomic damages in a personal injury action to $350,000. Similar provisions in other states have been struck down as unconstitutional. This comment examines the constitutionality of Maryland's noneconomic damages limitation and argues that the damage limitation violates both the state and …


Casenotes: Statute Of Limitations — Medical Malpractice — Constitutional Law — Five Year Statute Of Repose On Medical Malpractice Claims That Commences When An Injury Occurs Is Constitutional. Hill V. Fitzgerald, 304 Md. 689, 501 A.2d 27 (1985), Nancy E. Leibowitz Jan 1987

Casenotes: Statute Of Limitations — Medical Malpractice — Constitutional Law — Five Year Statute Of Repose On Medical Malpractice Claims That Commences When An Injury Occurs Is Constitutional. Hill V. Fitzgerald, 304 Md. 689, 501 A.2d 27 (1985), Nancy E. Leibowitz

University of Baltimore Law Review

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The Constitutional Attack On Virginia's Medical Malpractice Cap: Equal Protection And The Right To Jury Trial, M. Margaret Branham Kimmel Jan 1987

The Constitutional Attack On Virginia's Medical Malpractice Cap: Equal Protection And The Right To Jury Trial, M. Margaret Branham Kimmel

University of Richmond Law Review

Since its enactment, Virginia's statute limiting medical malpractice awards has spawned questions concerning its constitutionality. In response to the alleged insurance crisis of the 1970's, many state legislatures passed statutes designed to slow the rising costs of liability insurance. With such statutes already enacted in many jurisdictions, the insurance and health care industries claim that another malpractice insurance crisis exists today. While that may be true in some parts of the country and within some medical specialties, the problem originally was not as severe in the state of Virginia. Today, it is still not as severe in Virginia as it …


Can Mental Health Professionals Predict Judicial Decisionmaking? Constitutional And Tort Liability Aspects Of The Right Of The Institutionalized Mentally Disabled To Refuse Treatment: On The Cutting Edge, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1986

Can Mental Health Professionals Predict Judicial Decisionmaking? Constitutional And Tort Liability Aspects Of The Right Of The Institutionalized Mentally Disabled To Refuse Treatment: On The Cutting Edge, Michael L. Perlin

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Third Circuit's Virtual Abrogation Of The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act Of 1982 - Outmoded Standards Threaten The Abortion Right, Randall J. Zakreski Jan 1985

The Third Circuit's Virtual Abrogation Of The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act Of 1982 - Outmoded Standards Threaten The Abortion Right, Randall J. Zakreski

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Severe Neurological Impairment: Legal Aspects Of Decisions To Reduce Care, H. Richard Beresford May 1984

Severe Neurological Impairment: Legal Aspects Of Decisions To Reduce Care, H. Richard Beresford

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Decisions to reduce care for patients with severe neurological impairment may raise legal questions. The laws of most states now authorize physicians to stop care for those who have suffered irreversible cessation of all functions of the brain (“brain death”). Where state law is not explicit, it is nevertheless probably lawful to regard brain death as death for legal purposes so long as currently accepted criteria are satisfied. Several courts have ruled that it is lawful to reduce care for patients in vegetative states, but have prescribed differing standards and procedures for implementing such decisions. The issue of whether parents …


The Virginia Natural Death Act - A Critical Analysis, Janice G. Murphy Jan 1983

The Virginia Natural Death Act - A Critical Analysis, Janice G. Murphy

University of Richmond Law Review

The right to die with dignity is a controversial issue. In the absence of legislative guidance, court intervention is often necessary to protect a patient's right to the privacy of his own body. At the same time, courts must protect the state's interests in the preservation of life, the protection of innocent third parties, the prevention of suicide, and the ethical integrity of the medical profession.


Accommodation Of Conscientious Objection To Abortion: A Case Study Of The Nursing Profession, W. Cole Durham Jr., Mary Anne Q. Wood, Spencer J. Condie May 1982

Accommodation Of Conscientious Objection To Abortion: A Case Study Of The Nursing Profession, W. Cole Durham Jr., Mary Anne Q. Wood, Spencer J. Condie

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Involuntary Commitment: The Move Toward Dangerousness, 15 J. Marshall L. Rev. 83 (1982), Robert Weissbourd Jan 1982

Involuntary Commitment: The Move Toward Dangerousness, 15 J. Marshall L. Rev. 83 (1982), Robert Weissbourd

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


State Medical Malpractice Screening Panels In Federal Diversity Actions, Vincent C. Alexander Jan 1979

State Medical Malpractice Screening Panels In Federal Diversity Actions, Vincent C. Alexander

Faculty Publications

During the early 1970's, a medical malpractice crisis was perceived in the United States. An increasing number of costly and time-consuming lawsuits alleging medical malpractice against doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers caused malpractice insurers to raise premiums substantially, which in turn threatened to curtail the availability of adequate health care at reasonable cost. State legislatures responded to the crisis with a variety of substantive and procedural measures intended to reduce the number of litigated claims and the size of jury awards. One of the principal steps taken in a majority of states was the creation of extrajudicial panels …


The Role Of Judges In Life/Death Decisions For The Neurologically Impaired, H. Richard Beresford Nov 1978

The Role Of Judges In Life/Death Decisions For The Neurologically Impaired, H. Richard Beresford

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has recently ruled that decisions about withholding care from hopelessly ill, legally incapacitated patients must be made by judges. It clearly rejected the view that families and attending physicians should be empowered to make such decisions. In this respect, the ruling contrasts with that of the Quinlan case and highlights the issue of whether judges or physicians and families are better able to make medically and morally sound decisions respecting this class of patients.


Cognitive Death: Differential Problems And Legal Overtones, H. Richard Beresford Nov 1978

Cognitive Death: Differential Problems And Legal Overtones, H. Richard Beresford

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Confinement Of Mabel Jones: Is There A Right To Jury Trial In Civil Commitment Proceedings?, Vicki Gordon Kaufman Jan 1978

The Confinement Of Mabel Jones: Is There A Right To Jury Trial In Civil Commitment Proceedings?, Vicki Gordon Kaufman

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


On The Report And Recommendations Of The National Commission For The Protection Of Human Subjects Of Biomedical And Behavioral Research - Research On The Fetus - Introduction, Robert A. Destro Jan 1976

On The Report And Recommendations Of The National Commission For The Protection Of Human Subjects Of Biomedical And Behavioral Research - Research On The Fetus - Introduction, Robert A. Destro

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.