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Team Physicians, Sports Medicine, and the Law: An Update
No full textThe medicolegal issue that many physicians and attorneys think about often is malpractice liability. In the sports context, however, this issue is not always the most legally significant. Although the work of team physicians and the practice of sports medicine have expanded, there are few reported cases of malpractice liability. Moreover, tort law applied to sports medicine remains largely unchanged. The same negligence standard that apply to the practice of medicine are generally used to evaluate medical care provided to athletes within a sports setting. Thus, from the medical malpractice standpoint, acting as a team physician or sports medicine specialist has no greater legal significance than it did more than a decade ago.
Notably, however, state legislatures have identified the practice of sports medicine and the work of team physicians as presenting important policy issues[...
Recent Development: A Guy Named Moe, LLC v. Chipotle Mexican Grill of Colo., LLC: A Foreign Limited Liability Company Lacking Compliance with State Registration Requirements May Maintain Suit After Infirmity is Cured; The Company Must Also Meet the Person Aggrieved Requirement of Standing.
Get PDFThe Court of Appeals of Maryland held that a foreign limited liability company, though unregistered at the time of filing, could resolve its lack of compliance and maintain its action for judicial review. A Guy Named Moe, LLC v. Chipotle Mexican Grill of Colo., LLC, 447 Md. 425, 447, 135 A.3d 492, 505 (2016). The court further held that one does not have standing as a “person aggrieved” based solely on the desire to eliminate business competition. Id. at 453, 135 A.3d at 508
Privacy Protection Act
No full textThis entry in the Privacy Rights in the Digital Age encyclopedia covers the Privacy Protection Act, enacted in 1980, which protects the work products of reporters and other public communications workers from police or government search or seizure
How Limiting Women\u27s Access to Birth Control and Abortions Hurts the Economy
No full textReproductive health isn’t just about abortions, despite all the attention they get. It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and much else.
Such access lets women control the timing and size of their families so they have children when they are financially secure and emotionally ready and can finish their education and advance in the workplace. After all, having children is expensive, costing US25,000 a year.
And that’s why providing women with a full range of reproductive health options is good for the economy at the same time as being essential to the financial security of women and their families. Doing the opposite threatens not only the physical health of women but their economic well-being too
Panel 3: Emerging Forms of Legal Scholarship
Get PDFWhat new forms is legal scholarship taking in response to technological advances and other factors? What benefits and risks do these emerging forms of scholarship present?
Presenters:
Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of LawJake Heller, Casetext, Inc.Daniel Martin Katz, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Moderator:
Colin Starger, University of Baltimore School of La
Second Keynote Address
Get PDFJack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law Schoo
Exploring Federal Diversity Jurisdiction: Testimony in Front of the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice
Get PDFGood morning Chairman Franks, Ranking Member Cohen and members of the Subcommittee. My name is Ronald Weich and I am the dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law. Thank you for the opportunity to testify at this hearing entitled “Exploring Federal Diversity Jurisdiction.”
The subject of today’s hearing is technical, complex, little-understood by the general public, and yet fundamental to the administration of justice in this country. Federal diversity jurisdiction touches on profound questions of federalism, state sovereignty and the proper functioning of the federal courts
The Fleecing of America’s Poor: Dan Hatcher’s The Poverty Industry
No full textHaving written about and represented many poor fathers in child support cases, I am familiar with the way federal and state child support policy undermines families. I understand how laws requiring recipients of public benefits to identify the fathers of their children and “cooperate” in child support enforcement hurt fragile family relationships. And I am aware that aspects of public functions like child support enforcement have been privatized in many states; I know this development has often resulted in prioritizing “revenue-maximization” over sound family policy.
But I had no idea about the extent of the harm caused by the broad web of contracts between the state and private industry to maximize profits from public benefits owed to vulnerable citizens until I read Dan Hatcher’s book, The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizen’s (NYU Press 2016). I should start this review with two disclosures. Dan is a friend and has been my colleague for over ten years at the University of Baltimore law school. I have also followed this book from its inception to its publication. But my enthusiastic review here will echo much of the praise he has received in the many positive reviews of The Poverty Industry in both the academic and popular press
When the Politicians Pick the Voters
No full textIn this second out of three lectures for Fall 2016, Professors Denniston and Epps discuss the intersection of the Supreme Court and equal representation in the electoral process, including reapportionment, gerrymandering, and the landmark 1964 Supreme Court case Reynolds v. Sims