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...bill's rape provisions make evidence of the plaintiff's prior sexual conduct admissable in court only when directly related to a defense of consent. Countryman believes that rape defendants will now use that defense. He approved, however, the portion of the bill declaring spouse rape illegal...
...little wonder, then, that Savit was placed in Hurlbut as a freshman. They wanted to get him as far away from everyone else as possible. Not is it any wonder that only after bothering the life out of the folks at University Hall did they consent to allow him to move in with roommates. Who, after all, would want to room with...
Rabkin's proposals allow the doctor and the patient--with the consent of an advisory committee--to agree beforehand that, after a certain point of deterioration of the patient's physical condition, the doctors will not make resuscitation attempts...
...Wamponoags based their suit on the Indian Non-Intercourse Act of 1790, which prohibited the transfer of Indian lands without the consent of the federal government. When the Massachusetts legislature incorporated Mashpee as a town in 1870, the Indians claim it violated this law and so the land in Mashpee belongs to them...
...taken place in an area where the social mores condone the unconsented touching or pinching of the buttocks (rumor has it that Italy may be such an area), perhaps the defendant's position could be sustained. However, here the touching of a woman's buttocks without her consent is not treated so cavalierly as in some environs." Though the defendant has not yet been sentenced, he faces a fine and up to three months in jail...