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... that employed children who either were under fourteen years of age or who were under sixteen years of age and worked more than eight hours a day. Despite its popular support, the Act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918). The Court's decision involved several major...

...Tamara Hervey What role(s) does the European Court of Justice (ECJ) play in the Europeanization of communicable disease control? Drawing on a review of the ECJ's case law, especially but not exclusively in public health fields, from the 1950s to 2009, this article argues that the ECJ's past...

...Carla Campbell; Edward J. Gracely; Curtis Cummings; Sarah Pan; Peter Palermo; George D. Gould The Philadelphia Lead Court (PLC) was created as an innovative law enforcement strategy to compel property owners to comply with city health codes to remediate their properties of lead hazards, which had...

...Nancy M. P. King; Wanda M. Hunter; Desmond K. Runyan Concerned about the possible detrimental impact of the investigative process and court proceedings on child victims of sexual abuse, many child advocates have proposed extensive evidentiary and procedural revisions of the court process. As part...

... Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom . New York: Basic Books. ———. 1992 . Junk Science in the Courtroom. Valparaiso University Law Review 26 : 732 -755. Huber, P., and K. B. Foster, eds. 1997 . Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts . Cambridge: MIT Press. Huxley, J...

... and policy in the vaccine injury context. According to insiders on the court, science is defined as knowledge that a vaccine causes a specific adverse event; policy is the political, legal, and conflict management goals of the vaccine court (78). The science sometimes informs the policy (by dictating...

... a patient's relationship with his or her managed care organization. Regulating private behavior introduces a distinctive policy process; it alters the way we introduce (or frame)political issues and shifts many important decisions from the legislatures to the courts. In this article, we illustrate...

...Kenneth R. Wing Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Reportfiom the Field The Supreme Court’s Spring Term: Abortion, the Right to Die, and the Decline of Privacy Rights Kenneth R. Wing, University of Puget Sound and University...

...Sara Rosenbaum Abstract In Olmstead v. L.C. by Zimring , the United States Supreme Court addressed the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark in US civil rights law, and the Medicaid program. Olmstead holds that qualified individuals with disabilities who...

...Martin A. Levin R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts (Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1983), 221 pp., $29.95 hardcover $11.95 paperback Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 414 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law the prior work has been...

...Deborah A. Stone Peter Schuck, Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986), 347 pp., $25.00 Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 371 Peter Schuck, Agent...

... review on health care policy and the institutional capacity of courts to formulate policy in this field. The significant impact of rights-based claims on cross-jurisdictional policy differences in a federal regime is noted. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Anderson, G. F. 1992 . The Courts...

...Sherry I. Brandt-Rauf; Paul W. Brandt-Rauf Recent court decisions have stressed the necessity for cost-benefit analysis in evaluating Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA) standards, thus raising difficult ethical questions which this paper analyzes using classical approaches...

...Peter D. Jacobson; Matthew L. Kanna This article provides an initial look at how managed care organizations(MCOs) might incorporate cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) into their decision-making process and how the courts might respond. Because so few medical liability cases directly involve CEA, we...

...Arnold J. Rosoff This article examines how courts are likely to apply evidence-based medicine, and particularly clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), in healthcare litigation involving quality-of-care and entitlement-to-benefits (coverage)claims. Exploring the “politics” of the current situation...

... by the Courts: How Can It Help Improve Health Care? David M. Eddy Kaiser Permanente Southern California Although the relationship between health care and the courts has always been...