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Recolored all US states to green to indicated Good Samaritan laws but not duty to rescue laws, per talk page discussion: 18:08, 24 December 2023: 512 × 254 (1.26 MB) Zeldafanjtl: Split California and Mexico into separate objects: 08:43, 5 December 2022: 512 × 254 (1.24 MB) XciT: 06:38, 5 December 2022: 512 × 274 (607 KB) XciT: Uploaded own ...
Good Samaritan laws may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, as do their interactions with various other legal principles, such as consent, parental rights and the right to refuse treatment. Most such laws do not apply to medical professionals' or career emergency responders ' on-the-job conduct, but some extend protection to professional ...
"Good Samaritan" laws generally provide immunity in civil and criminal proceedings to persons who, in good faith, cause injury while attempting to help a person in distress, protecting such persons even in cases where greater harm resulted from the action than would have occurred otherwise.
Good Samaritan laws aren't uniform, though, and some give blanket amnesty for people calling for emergency medical services while others have more conditions the caller must meet.
Medical amnesty policies were first present in the university setting. Although failure to seek medical assistance in cases of alcohol poisoning can lead to fatal outcomes, evidence suggests that the threat of judicial consequences resulting from enforcement of the minimum drinking age or other law or policy violations leads some students to refrain from calling for emergency medical services.
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [1]The Good Samaritan Search and Recovery Act of 2013 would direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to implement a process to provide eligible organizations and individuals expedited access to federal lands to conduct good Samaritan search ...
Dec. 25—One of the country's largest faith-based medical cost-sharing groups has filed a lawsuit saying the state is violating its religious rights by attempting to prevent such entities from ...
After law school, Oldham was a law clerk to judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2006. He worked as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel from 2006 to 2008, as part of President George W. Bush's administration. [2]