Twenty-three states have enacted Tarasoff statutes applicable to psychiatrists. Since the first such statute was enacted in California in 1985, a significant number of courts in states with this and similar statutes have reviewed Tarasoff-type claims. This article reviews courts' analyses in 76 such cases. There were five basic categories identified, including cases that (I) did not reference t...

All states and the District of Columbia have passed sex offender registration and community notification laws. While the specific provisions of these statutes vary, all have public safety as a primary goal. The authors discuss two recent cases heard by the United States Supreme Court that challenged the constitutionality of Alaska's and Connecticut's statutes. The laws were challenged as violat...

[This article proposes a new approach to resolving a true conflict between the statutes of different states. It is commonly suggested that this type of conflict should be resolved by applying the statute of the state with the ‘closer connection’ to the dispute. However, states will not legislate unless they have a legitimate interest in the subject matter, so searching for the ‘closer connectio...

In a common law system, cases play a vital role in interpreting statutes, building arguments, organizing analyses, and crafting specific points of view. Legal research often begins with statutes or regulations, the primary law passed by the legislature or regulatory agency in the relevant jurisdiction. Cases in turn interpret those statutes and regulations. Cases may be the sole source of the l...

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 R I. THE CRIMINAL HIV-EXPOSURE STATUTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712 R A. Origins: Patient Zero and the Presidential Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712 R B. The Statutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

BY PAUL M. SCHWARTZ AND DANIEL J. SOLOVE P ersonally Identifiable Information (PII) is one of the most central concepts in privacy regulation. It defines the scope and boundaries of a large range of privacy statutes and regulations. Numerous federal statutes turn on this distinction. Similarly, many state statutes also rely on PII as a jurisdictional trigger. These laws all share the same basic...

BACKGROUND The ancient Croatian statutes were written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The aim of this study was to seek out regulations concerning public health in the oldest medieval statutes of the towns on the northern Adriatic coast (W Croatia). METHODS All translated text editions of the statutes of the three towns were examined. The statutes were written in the thirteenth an...

Coastal law is a relatively new legal field straddling other areas of law, namely environmental, private (torts, property), public (constitutional, administrative, planning), natural resources (oil and gas, fisheries), maritime and international law (law of the sea). Since the 1980s numerous countries (including states or provinces in federal countries) have adopted dedicated statutes as framew...