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...Opponents warned of putting girls at greater risk of cancer; of ignoring people's religious beliefs; and most of all, of violating parents' rights to know what their children are doing. Parents would have to consent for their children to be treated at the King Middle School clinic, but the nature of the treatment provided, including prescribing contraception, falls under state laws protecting patient privacy. When talking about children so young, the idea that parents would have no say is galling; they can be pulled over by police if their 11-year-old is not wearing a seat belt...
...Despite the enormous stakes involved, Sarkozy himself had other matters to deal with as his fellow citizens hoofed it to work. Shortly after noon, the Elysée announced "separation by mutual consent" of the Sarkozys - a split of their often high-profile but troubled marriage that had been widely expected. Indeed, over the past week, journalists' primary question to the Elysée had shifted from if the Sarkozys would be splitting to when their parting would be finally announced...
Gorman signed a consent order last month that suspends his medical license indefinitely and for a minimum of six months, and also imposes a probation period of five years. The conditions of probation require that Gorman be with another doctor when meeting with patients, according to Claudia Hutton, a spokeswoman for the New York Department of Health...
...with a fillip in the vast edifice of Fourth Amendment law governing police searches. To wit: What if a husband and wife are together at their home and the wife invites the police in to search for her husband's drug paraphernalia but the husband says no? Is the consent of just one spouse sufficient? Previous courts had handled the slightly different instance in which one spouse is sleeping, as well as the slightly different instance in which the wife gets the drug paraphernalia and hands it to the police. This case simply resolved the small number of instances...
...decision would effectively seal battered women in their homes with the police locked outside, he sent Breyer and Justice David Souter to their keyboards to write yet more pages establishing the long settled fact that police are allowed to enter a home to stop domestic violence, with or without consent...