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...many of them Navajos from local reservations, contracted lung cancer, and many of them died. In 1979, 200 workers with cancer sued the Federal Government for damages, but courts dismissed the case on the ground of sovereign immunity, which exempts the Government from legal liability unless it gives its consent...
Find footnotes.Something about the thesis writer's predicament makes you feel rude if you do not consent to being their slave. "Problem? No problem. Are you kidding?" you say as you rummage through the stacks of Widener for the first time since Reading Period to find the all-important place of publication...
...risk of printing names of those accused of public sex was clearly demon-strated last October. Plainclothes officers arrested a retired schoolteacher from West Essex at a rest stop in the Herald Parker State Forest, charging him with indecent assault and battery (sexual contact without consent). The Boston Globe printed the man's name, apparently with no regard for the privacy or safety of his wife and four daughters. Within two days of the arrest and Globe story, the man was found dead in his garage with his car motor running and his wrists slit. The man's guilt...
...that abortion is a serious matter, or that its casual use as an ex post facto contraceptive is a national scandal. But to decide whether an individual is guilty of committing an act deserving of hell, one needs to know whether the deed was done with malice and full consent. As O'Connor wisely observed, only God can know that...
...official was identified as a homosexual via leaflets or noisy demonstrations. The rationale for exposing the politicians' alleged secret lives was that they were guilty of malicious hypocrisy on matters of life and death. One outing victim had endorsed legislation allowing hospitals to test patients for AIDS without their consent. Another backed a ban on funding to school programs that describe homosexuality as normal. A third supposedly failed to provide adequate public AIDS services. Yet in an odd twist that underscores the uneasy position of gays in society, the demonstrators were attacking enemies by embracing each as one of their...