Word: consent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like characters in a novel by Allen (Advise and Consent) Drury, two of the Nixon Administration's most powerful figures are grabbing for the sweeping economic policymaking authority once wielded by departing Treasury Secretary George Shultz. The contenders are Roy Ash, 55, once president of Litton Industries, now director of the Office of Management and Budget, and William E. Simon, 46, a former Wall Street bond trader, now federal energy czar. Simon is on the verge of winning an early round: President Nixon this week is expected to name him to succeed Shultz at Treasury, a job that apparently...
...university agreed to negotiate with a bargaining unit if we had a consent election," Silberstein said. "Now it is legally bound...
...December, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals declared that Iowa's use of vomit-inducing apomorphine was cruel and unusual punishment-and therefore unconstitutional-unless the inmate gives knowing, written consent, which can be revoked "at any time." Injections of apomorphine continue, but only under conditions set by the court...
...three-judge state court in Michigan last summer blocked a brain operation planned for a criminally insane inmate who had sometimes been uncontrollably violent. Though he had "volunteered" for psychosurgery, the judges concluded that the "inherently coercive atmosphere" of confinement makes "truly informed" consent impossible...
...Michigan court correct in doubting the possibility of any freely given consent by an inmate? Or have the Iowa judges successfully devised rules that safeguard the volunteer? Either way it is clear that the question of consent is crucial-for both legal and pragmatic reasons. Electric-shock therapy for sex offenders, for instance, is plainly offensive and probably illegal if imposed on anyone who does not want it. On the other hand, there is some preliminary indication that the treatment may work -to the benefit of both the prisoner and society. If the voluntary program is ended, inmates who really...