RU-486, or mifepristone, can work as a contraceptive, as an emergency contraceptive, or as an abortifacient. It has the potential to dramatically increase the privacy of procreative choice. For this to happen, RU-486 must fall under the protection of contraception law rather than the law of abortion. Contraception law constitutionally guarantees access to contraception, including emergency cont...

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 468 I. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF WAL-MART STORES, INC. V. DUKES .............. 471 II. STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY AND GROSS DISPARITIES OF DISCRIMINATION ........................................................................ 474 A. Commonality and Its Intricate Relationship with Sampling...

The tobacco industry's strong-arm tactics have been used consistently over many years. These tactics include: using the industry's size, wealth, and legal resources to intimidate individuals and local governmental bodies; setting up 'front groups' to make it appear that it has more allies than it really does; spending large sums of money to frame the public debate about smoking regulations arou...

Abstract This is the first detailed examination of compulsory detention for ‘drug treatment’ through lens a rapidly evolving international legal framework. It estimated that as many half million people worldwide are detained purpose treatment’, held months or years at time without being charged criminally able to challenge legality their detention. therefore key issue sitting intersection human...

INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................512 I. GAGING THE RESPONSE TO HUMAN CLONING .................................517 A. Initial Reactions and Actions ........................................................517 B. Recent Attitudes Toward Human Cloning .....................................519 II. CAN A BAN ON HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE CLONING ...

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a major milestone in safeguarding the rights of persons with disabilities. However, the General Comment on Article 12 of the CRPD threatens to undermine critical rights for persons with mental disabilities, including the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, access to justice, the right to liberty, and the ...

Ninety-three years ago, in Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court struck down a maximum-working-hours law for bakers as an impermissible invasion of employer-employee liberty of contract and, by implication, of the employer's property rights in his business. Lochner came to symbolize, and was vilified for, a vision of state power as rigidly circumscribed by the operation of judicially-determine...

The paper focuses on the traditional purpose of pre-trial detention (and other precautionary measures) to prevent specific risks. While liberty is rule, before conviction, an absolute exception, competing with opposite principle presumption innocence: providing valuable and accurate justification for balancing interest risk innocence overarching difficulty judges, in whole western world. Which ...

Prisons are essential to a safe and civil society. Prisons are also costly for the taxpayers whose government houses, feeds, medicates, and supervisesmillions of people under lock andkey. This expense is compounded by errors in the u.S. legal system that produces both false guilty verdicts and overly harsh penalties. It’s time for the united States to take a closer look at these unnecessary inc...