... 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...

...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...

...: 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. 1949...

...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 and...

...Sarah E. Gollust Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Meredith Wadman . The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease . New York : Viking , 2017 . 448 pp. $30.00 cloth. Anna Kirkland . Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury . New...

... . Pecora P. . 2003 . Assessing the Effects of Foster Care: Early Results from the Casey National Alumni Study . Seattle : Casey Family Programs . Peters C. M. . 2008 . “Continuing in Foster Care beyond Age Eighteen: How Courts Can Help.” July . Chicago : University of Chicago...

...Sara Rosenbaum AbstractIn 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 are...

...Mark A. Hall AbstractUnited States' courts have played a limited, yet key, role in shaping health equity in three areas of law: racial discrimination, disability discrimination, and constitutional rights. Executive and administrative action has been much more instrumental than judicial decisions...

...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 Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts...

...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...

... 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...

... . Healthy Technology Assessment Information Service, Executive Briefings, February. Eddy, D. M. 1994 . Rationing Resources while Improving Quality: How to Get More for Less. Journal of the American Medical Association 272 : 817 -824. Ferguson, J. H., M. Dubinsky, and P. J. Kirsch. 1993 . Court...

... 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 and...

...Wendy E. Parmet AbstractThis essay argues that it matters for the fate of health policies challenged in court whether courts consider health merely as a policy goal that must be subordinate to law, or as a legal norm warranting legal weight and consideration. Applying population-based legal...

... highlight both the promise and the pitfalls of relying on courts to correct deficiencies in public managed care programs. This article argues that while litigation over inadequacies in Medicare and Medicaid managed care can serve an important signaling function in alerting agencies and legislatures about...

...Rand E. Rosenblatt Because of budgetary and other political pressures. American health care reform (and other social reform) legislation is often not enforced, or is implemented in ways that undermine its egalitarian goals. About 25 years ago the federal courts began to try to reduce this gap...

...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 of Washington...

... -1004. Schlesinger, M., S. Mitchell, and B. Gray. 2004 . Public Expectations of Nonprofit and For-Profit Ownership in American Medicine: Clarifications and Implications. Health Affairs 23 : 181 -191. Why Don’t Courts Treat Hospitals Like Tanks for Liquefied Gases...