Will the Supreme court's judgement on Section 377 affect mental healthcare for LGBT groups?

Decriminalising homosexuality in India.

This paper examines the successful fight against the provision in Section 377 of the Penal Code of India that criminalised private consensual sex between adults of the same sex. This law had led to serious discrimination against people engaging in homosexual acts, who were subjected to frequent beatings and blackmail attempts by police, who used the threat of prosecution against them. NGOs work...

Too young to kill? U.S. Supreme Court treads a dangerous path in Roper v. Simmons.

The death penalty remains an intensely divisive topic in American society. Recently, there has been a series of cases, first involving defendants with mental retardation and more recently involving juveniles, in which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled by a five-to-four margin that the death penalty in both these classes violates the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment...

The Drawing Lines in Shifting Sands: U.S. Supreme Court's Mixed Messages on ERISA Preemption Imperil Healthcare Care Reform

I. as a Litigation Matter, the Supreme Court's Gte Sylvania and Later Opinions Make Clear the Pnb Presumption Will Be Overruled and Thus the Hmg Must Be Replaced

These comments are respectfully submitted both as to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines ("HMG") generally, and also to questions 1-10., 12-15. They show that as a litigation matter the current HMG must be replaced because they are dependent on the PNB presumption, which will be overruled under the Supreme Court's GTE Sylvania and later presumption cases, and that new merger guidelines (and antitr...

The Supreme Court's limitation of managed-care liability.

This article summarizes and critiques the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila, which limited managed care organizations' liability for negligent decisions about the care of patients in private employer-sponsored health plans governed by ERISA. It contrasts the Court's dichotomous view of health benefit plans, in which insurers administer contracts and treating physician...