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Chung's bill, which came up before the joint Health Care Committee last week, seeks to codify the mature minor rule. The Supreme Judicial Court defined a mature minor as one who is capable of giving informed consent (to an operation or medication...
Doctors are afraid to keep minors' medical records confidential because common law labels treatment without parental consent "assault and battery," she said...
...firm owning radio and TV stations throughout the U.S. The charge was that he arranged to have the company bail him and three partners out of a bad investment in some Texas movie theaters by having Starr buy the theaters. Rather than fight the charge, Buckley signed a tough consent decree, saying :hat he wanted to avoid costly litigation. The decree requires him to surrender Starr stock worth more than $600,000 to a court-administered fund that may be distributed to other Starr stockholders and to forgo some payments Starr owed him. The total cost to Buckley could reach...
Even though he signed a consent decree declining to submit the matter to the courts, Buckley characteristically could not let his differences with the SEC go by without a public riposte. He released copies of his correspondence with the SEC on the matter, plus a long question-and-answer sheet. Among other things, he contended that he could not fairly be blamed for the misleading 10-K reports because he had not bothered to read them, and had relied on the advice of others that they were accurate. Said Buckley: "I did not even know what...
...southern China. She quit college in Peking and joined the Communists after Mao's Long March of the mid-1930s. She soon met Teng, one of the party's rising stars. Teng had apparently abandoned a first wife, betrothed to him by his parents without his consent, and had lost his second wife, perhaps during the Long March. He and Cho Lin were married...