Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This procedure, allowing terminal burn patients to choose death, in effect, sooner rather than later, has been in use at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center's burn unit for two years. During that time, 21 of 24 patients diagnosed as "having injury without precedent...
Finding new law Society occasionally has to be forced to treat people as equals. That is the basis of rights. So a judge should act imaginatively when he feels that a minority is threatened with moral and social prejudice. If a specific precedent is not available, the judge should ask...
Most scientists, as well as many laymen, politicians and administrators, oppose the Kennedy bill and parts of the Rogers bill on some predictable grounds. Whether or not Government control of recombinant DNA research is advisable, they say, these bills are too cumbersome to work and so repressive that they will...
But Brennan's opinion carefully underlined the singularity of the Nixon case, attributing the law to "a context unique in the history of the Presidency." Two of the six concurring Justices forcefully reiterated that the law set no precedent for future congressional dealings with departing Presidents.
The committee also believes that the offenses that Harvard allegedly committed during the campaign are "marginal in terms of what broad precedent might permit for a new election," any they therefore should not bother with the appeal, Pool added.