Beginning on March 26, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments regarding challenges to the recent federal health care reform legislation. The Court scheduled this unusually lengthy series of arguments to last for three days—a reflection of both the high stakes and the complexity of the legal issues involved. Whatever the Court ultimately decides, the outcome will have ...

This study aims to analyze and examine the meaning of unlawful acts by government officials authority state administrative courts in dealing with cases related officials. was normative legal research using a statutory approach conceptual approach. The primary materials uses this including Indonesian Civil Code (Burgerlijk Wetboek), Supreme Court Regulation (hereinafter PERMA) Number 2 2019 conc...

The recent Supreme Court decision of Queensland v B [2008] 2 Qd R 562 has significant implications for the law that governs consent and abortions. The judgment purports to extend the ratio of Secretary, Department of Health and Community Services (NT) v JWB and SMB (1992) 175 CLR 218 (Marion's Case) and impose a requirement of court approval for terminations of pregnancy for minors who are not ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 forever changed the face of electoral equality in the United States. Today, almost forty years later, the Act is considered one of the most pivotal pieces of federal legislation in our country’s history and the “most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever enacted.” Congress has revisited various segments of the Act ave times since its enactment. A key 19...

For two decades, clinicians have been guided by an agreement about the appropriate use of artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH). In general, ANH has been seen as a medical treatment that patients or their surrogates may accept or refuse on the basis of the same considerations that guide all other treatment decisions: the potential benefits, risks, and discomfort of the treatment and the reli...

Placing a high profile gay rights case on its agenda for the first time since Romer v. Evans, the U.S. Supreme Court announced on January 14 that it will review the federal constitutional issues decided by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Dale v. Boy Scouts of America, 734 A.2d 1196, 160 N.J. 562 (Aug. 4, 1999). The case will be argued this spring and probably decided by the end of the Court’s t...

Concepts of unity law and unified application were the main goals revised version Mongolian Judiciary Law in 2021 based on changes Constitution 2019. Constitutional Court decided that some provisions Courts Mongolia, Administrative Litigation, Criminal Procedure, Civil Litigation violated relevant Mongolia. Those related to scope Supreme Therefore is examine grounds for not complying with Mongo...

Curtis Rooney's article reviews the ERISA law and it relationship to managed care. The piece continues with a review of the relevant preremption provisions and a extentivsive discussion of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The author discusses malpractice and design liabilities. The article concludes with a discussion of reform initiatives directed toward the ERISA preemption and damage pro...

Eyewitnesses’ retrospective reports of certainty, view, attention, and other judgments constitute central variables used by courts to assess the credibility of eyewitness identification evidence. Recently, important state Supreme Court decisions (e.g., New Jersey v. Henderson, 2011; Oregon v. Lawson, 2012) have relied on psychological research regarding the post-identification feedback effect t...

The 20th century U.S. Supreme Court advanced the Constitutional rights of adult criminal defendants. Although far reaching in their impact, these constitutional protections were not afforded to juveniles. For example, the Supreme Court held in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) that indigent adult defendants in felony cases have a right to counsel as a matter of due process, but did not extend this ri...