On Saturday, January 30, 1835, President Andrew Jackson accompanied by his Vice-President, Martin Van Buren, and the Secretaries of Treasury and Navy, entered the portico of the Capitol. President Jackson had just attended the funeral service for Representative Warren B. Davis of South Carolina. Suddenly a man in the crowd pulled a pistol from beneath his coat, extended his arm, and levelled th...

As surgeons, the medical-legal aspects of our profession do not seem to be a priority in our daily practice; however, lawsuits for negligence are becoming more and more frequent, as discussed at the 29th National Surgery Congress, titled ‘‘Medical-legal aspects of bariatric surgery’’, with the participation of two experienced attorneys. There is also a need for scientific societies to get invol...

Notre travail a pour but d’étudier le devenir des sujets considérés comme irresponsables sur plan pénal en raison d’une abolition du discernement au titre de l’article 122-1 alinéa 1 Code et mettre évidence un lien entre leur pathologie, infraction prise charge. Cette étude observationnelle rétrospective recueilli auprès d’un expert psychiatre exerçant la cour d’appel Rennes l’ensemble expertis...

In the November elections, the citizens of three states resoundingly defeated initiatives aimed at curtailing reproductive rights. In Colorado, a proposed amendment to the state’s Constitution would have given the same legal rights to fertilized eggs as to living persons. This amendment, which was rejected by a wide margin, would have had broad ramifications for abortion rights, the use of cont...

In the fall of 2008, Minnesota public health officials became alarmed by an unusually high number of illnesses and deaths caused by salmonella poisoning. Federal and state regulators and the news media eventually traced the outbreak back to products supplied by the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). Employees shipped batches that tested positive for salmonella from a plant with a leaking roof...

Competence to stand trial has long been considered “the most significant mental health inquiry pursued in the system of criminal law” (Stone, 1975, p. 200). Hoge, Bonnie, Poythress, and Monahan (1992) estimated that pretrial competence evaluations are sought in 2% to 8% of all felony cases. LaFortune and Nicholson (1995) reported that judges and attorneys estimate that competency is a legitimat...

As of March 2001, 29 U.S. states had provided enhanced sanctions for high-BAC impaired driving offenders. Minnesota’s high-BAC statute, implemented in 1998, resulted in more severe case dispositions for high-BAC offenders than for other offenders. Overall dispositions for first and repeat offenders were more severe after the law, and the rate of alcohol test refusals was stable. The effective i...

Mexican migration to the United States has been attributed to the poverty and economic polarization in Mexico. Although the dismantling of the peasant economy persists as a factor in demographic displacement, there have been recent changes in the causes that provoke the migration of Mexicans. Family violence, for example, appears as an important motivator in pushing women into the migratory flo...

This study provides an application framework toward measures to prevent/control identity theft in conjunction with sources. It also identifies the impact of overall protection of identity theft on consumer trust, the cost of products/services, and operational performance, all of which in turn contribute to a purchase intention using E-commerce (EC). For the first objective, this study proposes ...

MOST SCIENTISTS ARE DEVOTED TO THEIR WORK AND ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THE POTENTIAL benefits their research brings to society. But are they and their families prepared to die for their work? Should this even be a consideration when these individuals are working under carefully legislated and legal research conditions? For 13 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), researchers, some of whom wo...