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Second Wavers know the idea of pharmaceutical research on pregnant women is a moral, not to mention legal, minefield, which is why they advocate starting small by analyzing the amount of medication circulating in the bloodstream of pregnant women who are already taking prescription drugs out of necessity. A program launched in 2004 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is doing a few studies of this kind in four cities - Galveston, Texas; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Seattle; and D.C. - where flyers placed in obstetricians' offices seek pregnant women taking prescription drugs who are willing to stay in a hospital...
...must make him talk at once or else risk thousands of innocent lives. It's not just fervid screenwriters who believe that such a scenario calls for the use of brute force. In 2002, Richard Posner, a Court of Appeals judge in Chicago and one of the most respected legal authorities in the U.S., wrote in the New Republic that "if torture is the only means of obtaining the information necessary to prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Times Square, torture should be used ... No one who doubts that this is the case should be in a position...
...absence of any criminal convictions, four families of people who died in Omagh launched a civil action in 2000 against the Real IRA as an organization as well as five individuals they believed were chiefly responsible for the bombing. Using their own savings, donations and legal aid, they raised about $2.4 million to fund their case, with more families coming on board later. Their subsequent claim for more than $15 million in damages was based on the long-term psychological impacts of the atrocity - posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and alcoholism - which continue to affect many of the victims' family members...
Salinger, J.D. •legal proceedings are initiated by to prevent publication of unauthorized sequel to famous popular-with-assassins novel...
...minister did not say when the trial would begin, but he did say law requires the government to produce the doctors in court once a month during their detention. He also said there was legal provision with the constitution allowing the detention to be challenged at the country's Supreme Court...