Topic
Consent
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ContractsProf Blog
Reminder: AALS Contracts Section Call for Proposals
The Executive Committee of the AALS Contracts Section solicits proposals for the Section’s Annual Meeting program Navigating Lombard Street in a Fog: Seeking (or Ignoring) Landmarks of Intent and Context,…
EvidenceProf Blog
Article of Interest: Josephine Ross’ Blaming the Victim: ‘Consent’ Within the Fourth Amendment and Rape Law
By Colin Miller
It used to be that courts applied an objective definition of consent in rape prosecutions. This was because of traditional force and resistance requirements: First, courts interpreted the element of force…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
1979 NC Supreme Court Case Legalizes Rape
The Charlotte Observer: Prosecutor drops rape charges vs. athlete, by Eric Frazier and Franco Ordoñez:Student has been reinstated at Butler and is eligible to return to the football team. Mecklenburg…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Columnist Reveals A Drunken Night and Ponders Whether it Was Rape
Salon.com: Haunted by the morning after, by Elizabeth Kennedy:At a high school party in 2001, I drunkenly went off with a guy. I'm still coming to grips with what happened…
Broadcast Law Blog
FCC Announces One Million Dollar Payola Consent Decree With Univision – What’s It Mean for Radio Broadcasters?
The FCC today announced a $1,000,000 Consent Decree with Univision Radio to settle payola investigations underway at both the FCC and the Department of Justice. Payola, or "pay for play" as…
The Faculty Lounge
Lying and Consensual Sex
I was listening to an NPR broadcast at lunchtime today and was struck by a talkback portion of the show dealing with a case in Israel where a man was…
Energy & Environmental Law Blog
Proposed Consent Decree Filed on Residual Risk Standards
By Kristin Watt
According to the provisions of a proposed consent decree filed July 6 (Sierra Club v. Jackson, N.D. Cal., No. 09-152), USEPA will issue residual risk emissions standards to address the…
AdLaw By Request®
The Show Must Go On – But First Get Consent
By Adam Snukal
…another important development in the area of mobile marketing and advertising. Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois’ Eastern Division found that a 20th Century…
Health IT Law Blog
ONC publishes white paper on consent options
By Vadim Schick
The Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) published on its web site a white paper analyzing the policies behind obtaining consent for the purposes of electronic health information exchange. The…
Food Poison Journal
Consent Degree Reached Between Listeria Plagued Peregrina Cheese Inc. & FDA; Brooklyn Factory To Remain Open; Now Recalls Everything Since March 17, 2009
By Dan Flynn
Brooklyn’s Listeria plagued Peregrina Cheese Inc. and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York have entered into a 16-page Consent Degree with many requirements---including the recall of all food…