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Informed Consent
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Health Care and Life Sciences
Balancing State and Federal Informed Consent Law
The passage of the 21st Century Cures Act ("Cures Act") and revisions to the Common Rule (45 CFR Part 46) ("Common Rule") in the last year mandated significant changes to…
The Appellate Law Blog
Challenge to Abortion Informed Consent Law Transferred To Missouri Supreme Court
Mary Doe v. Greitens, WD80387 Posted, Oct. 5, 2017 The Supreme Court of Missouri is set to decide a fascinating First Amendment-based challenge to recent restrictions on abortion enacted in…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
Can a Doctor Delegate Duty to Obtain Informed Consent to Staff Member?
A physician cannot perform a surgery or other medical procedure on a patient without first obtaining the patient’s informed consent. Informed consent means that the patient was advised of the…
Med Law Blog
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Only Physicians – Not Their Staff – Can Obtain Informed Consent
A recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision will have a major impact on how physicians across the Commonwealth obtain informed consent from their patients. In Shinal v. Toms, 2017 WL 2655387…
TortsProf Blog
Jerry Canterbury, the Plaintiff Who Helped Establish Informed Consent, Dies Aged 78
Jerry Canterbury, the plaintiff in Canterbury v. Spence, died aged 78 in March. From the NYT obituary:The ruling, by a federal appeals court in Washington in 1972, declared that before a…
Blaneys Appeals
ONTARIO COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (MAY 15 – 19, 2017)
Good Afternoon, Following are the summaries of civil decisions for the week. In Biancaniello v. DMCT LLP, the Court of Appeal reversed the Divisional Court and the original motion judge,…
TortsProf Blog
VA: Battery or Negligence?
The jurisdictions wrestle with the line between battery and negligence, especially negligence based on informed consent. The Virginia Supreme Court just drew the line in a case in which a…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Americas’ Highest Court Holds Forced Sterilization Violates Human Rights
International Justice Center Resource Center (January 3, 2016): IACtHR Holds Bolivia Responsible for Forced Sterilization in Landmark Judgment:Last week, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held that sterilization of a…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Sterilized Peruvian Woman Seeks Justice from Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Rewire (June 3, 2016): A Sterilized Peruvian Woman Seeks Justice From Americas' Highest Human Rights Court, by Cynthia Soohoo and Suzannah Phillips:The Inter-American Court of Human Rights recently heard argument…
Employee Benefits Blog
Developing and Implementing an Effective Telemedicine Informed Consent Form
The search by consumers, payers and providers for more efficient, effective and convenient care delivery models has led to an explosion of technological innovation in the health care sector. This…