Word: consent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking for the unanimous eight-man court, Justice William P. Murphy pointed out that the statute barring a doctor's testimony without patient's consent "makes no distinction between 'public' and 'private' physician-patient relationships. The purpose behind the statute is to inspire confidence in patients to make full disclosure of symptoms and conditions to physicians. Such confidence is deemed necessary to the efficacy of treatment. This is especially so in the case of state hospitals for the mentally ill, where complete confidence in the attending physicians is a sine...
...natural result of bunching all who can't work, won't work or aren't allowed to work off in one area, out from under social pressure from the rest of us. What is shocking is that we Americans, who so revere work and learning, should consent that a man who does go to school, does work, does rear his own family, should be frozen out of our community into lodging in this distracting and demoralizing environment because of his race...
Negative Influence. Though the resolution was hailed by such disparate Senate leaders as Georgia's martial Senator Richard Russell and Oregon's pacific Wayne Morse, the fact is that U.S. Presidents for 169 years have dispatched troops abroad without the Senate's advice or consent. The first instance was in 1798, when John Adams sent U.S. warships against French naval forces harassing American merchant ships. Since then, Presidents have taken it upon themselves to intervene in foreign crises more than 150 times without consulting Congress or have done so only after the fact. Jefferson...
Chapter III. There was an old law in the realm; not since 1772 had a descendant of George II been allowed to marry without his sovereign's consent. So the lord sought out his cousin for her queenly permission. But since the lord was the first member of the royal family ever to be charged in court with adultery, the Queen in turn sought out her most trusted advisors. "What should we do?" she asked her Privy Councilors. After due deliberation, they advised the Queen: "Grant the lord permission to remarry...
Information from disciplinary or counseling files should not be available to unauthorized persons on campus, or to any person off campus without the express consent of the student involved except under legal compulsion or in cases where the safety of persons or property is involved. No records should be kept which reflect the political activities or beliefs of students. Provision should also be made for periodic routine destruction of noncurrent disciplinary records. Administrative staff and faculty members should respect confidential information about students which they acquire in the course of their work...