Bad Medicine: Parents, the State, and the Charge of ‘Medical Child Abuse’
Maxine EichnerDoctors and hospitals have begun to level a new charge — “medical child abuse” (MCA) — against parents who, they say, get unnecessary medical treatment for their kids. The fact that this treatment has been ordered by other doctors does not protect parents from these accusations.
Here’s how Louisiana sentencing laws are changing under criminal justice reform
Julia O'DonoghueLouisiana lawmakers approved a criminal justice system overhaul — one that advocates are calling historic — during the 2017 regular legislative session. We’ve broken down the package into three parts. This installment, the second, is about changes to sentencing laws.
N.C. law: Woman can’t back out of sex once underway
Monica VendituoliAaliyah Palmer was at a party when a man pulled her into a bathroom for sex. She was willing. But, she told Fayetteville police, when the sex turned violent, she told the man to stop. He didn’t listen
How Do You Prove Damages When Executives Breach A Non-Solicit Provision?
Jason M. KnottIn 2011, a group of executives left Horizon Health Corporation for a competitor, Acadia, but they didn’t leave everything behind. Horizon’s president took a “massive, massive amount” of Horizon documents with him on an external hard drive. And despite provisions in their contracts prohibiting them from soliciting Horizon’s employees, the executives recruited a key member of Horizon’s sales team, John Piechocki, who copied lists of sales leads and added them to his new company’s “master contact list.”
Texas Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Texas Recognizes A Tortious Interference With Inheritance Claim
David Fowler JohnsonIn Anderson v. Archer, the trial court’s judgment awarded the plaintiffs $2.5 million in damages based on a tortious interference with inheritance claim. No. 03-13-00790-CV, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 2165 (Tex. App.—Austin March 2, 2016, pet. granted). The defendants appealed and argued that Texas law does not recognize such a claim.
The Economic Loss Rule
Ward FarnsworthThe emergence and evolution of the economic loss rule is the most important development of the past generation in the American common law of torts.