Several states have enacted statutes to protect minors from harmful or obscene materials disseminated over the Internet, as well as from pedophiles seeking to use the Internet to lure them into sexual conduct. State and federal courts have diverged in their analysis of the Dormant Commerce Clause’s impact on state regulation in these areas. While state courts have held that the Dormant Commerce...

The 1973 case Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson established the legality of abortion [3] in Arizona. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that the Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and 13-213, collectively called the Arizona abortion [3] statutes, were unconstitutional. The statutes had made illegal receiving, providing, or advertising abortions. After the Arizona Appeals Court...

The 1973 case Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson established the legality of abortion [3] in Arizona. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that the Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and 13-213, collectively called the Arizona abortion [3] statutes, were unconstitutional. The statutes had made illegal receiving, providing, or advertising abortions. After the Arizona Appeals Court...

States have responded to the Tarasoff duty to protect by passing statutes in all but 13 states. Such statutes either mandate or permit warning a potential victim. In this study, we analyzed 70 Tarasoff-related cases from a Westlaw-based search between 1985 and 2006. We determined the extent to which clinicians are being held liable for breach of the Tarasoff duty in statutory and nonstatutory s...

1. Law is more than statutes or Court decisions. Statutes and Court decisions constitute the written expression of a legal system, but a legal system is driven by actors who deploy explicit and implicit principles and rules which give diverse meanings to statutes and decisions. To be accurate an expert system in law must take this characteristic into account . This, however makes it much more c...

BACKGROUND The nurse's function, no matter the working area, is guided by ethical approaches, grounded in science and well-tried experiences, and has to be conducted according to national laws, statutes and instructions. AIM To survey newly graduated Swedish nurses' knowledge about current statutes and laws that govern their healthcare system. METHOD A questionnaire was developed from facts...