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...people who have been employed for 25 years at no more than two different private companies. Those who stayed home to stem the decline of France's birth rate were not forgotten. Mothers of five legitimate children received the Bronze ATCH Medal of the French Family. Criteria for winning this award were somewhat less severe for mothers who received gold medals for producing ten children for France, with no questions asked about the fathers...
...Court Judge Stanley Lawson sentenced her to five years' to life imprisonment. Now the California Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial, though the reason has nothing to do with women's rights. In instructing the jury, said the court, Judge Lawson erred by explaining the criteria for guilt in terms "strikingly comparable" to the less stringent ones used in civil cases. The state intends to appeal...
...competitive thing. It was not decided by any one person who would do the summit. The criteria for the selection was, who'd worked the hardest and the strongest," he said...
Doctors who testified at the trial agreed that Karen is in a "persistent vegetative state" and that her chances of recovery are remote. Even so, tests show slight brain activity, which means, said the judge, Karen is "not brain dead by present known medical criteria." Under common law, he went on, neither "the fact that the victim is on the threshold of death" nor "humanitarian motives" can justify taking life. Dismissing as mere "semantics" such questions as whether pulling the plug would be an act of commission or omission, he ruled that the move "would result in the taking...
Hospitals should establish criteria for DNR patients in the same way that Mass General instituted guidelines for patients on artificial support. In turn, the standard should be subjected to a legal test so that society will have an explicit voice in matters that have traditionally not been talked about. And, next time, the judge must not demur...