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LeFave and her mother, convicted of three counts of child rape and four counts of indecent assault and battery, were released in 1995 by Middlesex Superior Court judge Robert Barton...
Does gender-based violence affect interstate commerce? Sounds like a silly question, but it?s at the heart of a rape case that just made the Supreme Court docket. During its 1999-2000 session, the Court will decide the constitutionality of provisions in the Violence Against Women Act that allow women who are attacked or raped to sue their attackers in Federal civil court. The case under consideration was brought by a Virginia Tech student who charges that two members of the football team raped her during her freshman year. So why would a case like this fall under...
...defendants in the Virginia rape case are charged under the Violence Against Women Act, but contend that the commerce clause is not a sound basis for the act, and therefore that the case against them is invalid. The court?s deliberations will be watched carefully by lawmakers, because if the commerce clause is rejected as a viable basis for anti-discrimination law, it could affect not only the Violence Against Women Act but also countless other civil rights laws. ?Every major civil rights law on the federal books was enacted under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution,? says Sanders...
...nine-point percentage increase in the number of students who classified their evaluation of medical services as "very good" or "excellent" compared to a similar study conducted in 1992. Moreover, individual physicians and specialty services received satisfaction ratings of near 80 percent, and awareness of such important programs as rape crisis services has increased over 40 percentage points in the last seven years...
...which is among the class of so-called "date rape drugs," is a powerful central nervous system depressant. At sufficient doses, and/or in combination with alcohol or other sedatives, GHB can cause seizures, coma and, in rare cases, death. It is rated as a Class 1 agent by the Food and Drug Administration because of its potential to cause serious, life-threatening symptoms and is illegal under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...