Word: consents
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According to Massachusetts law, a lack of consent must be expressed physically or verbally; however, all the examples that we have used of why a women might high difficulty in expressing her lack of consent have stood up as evidence in criminal prosecutions (case numbers are available and can be provided on request...
...YEARS OF international fame, one of the century's most indelible (if ambiguous) images. Yet she passed the last 13 years of her life as a virtual recluse -- cranky, litigious and, considering the length and strength of her celebrity, by no means wealthy. She was, by common critical consent, one of the great stars of the movies' Golden Age. But she was never wildly popular with the mass audience and was once dubbed box-office "poison" in an exhibitors' poll...
...right to "pull from the outside"--a phrase that describes the process of auditioning and casting actors who had not originally tried out for the show. Inwood also asserts that the part was offered to Jones by the show's producer, Hubert Lin, without her prior knowledge or consent...
...Date Rape Task Force was right to adopt a definition of rape as any sexual act "that occurs without the expressed consent of the person....." This makes it incumbent on initiators of sex to obtain a specific...
STILL, PROBLEMS remain with judging these cases. The parties involved may have legitimate dispute over whether consent or dissent or neither was expressed...