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The Baker Act, officially known as the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, is a law in the U.S. state of Florida that allows certain professionals—such as doctors, mental health practitioners, judges, and law enforcement officers—to detain and involuntarily commit individuals to a mental health facility for up to 72 hours. This action can be ...
The prescription symbol, ℞, as printed on the blister pack of a prescription drug. A prescription, often abbreviated ℞ or Rx, is a formal communication from physicians or other registered healthcare professionals to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient.
At issue was the controversial recount in Florida in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election. There, the Supreme Court held that the different standards of counting ballots across Florida violated the equal protection clause. The Supreme Court used four of its rulings from 1960s voting rights cases (one of which was Reynolds v.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 as amended (PDF/details) in the GPO Statute Compilations collection; Family Network on Disabilities FNDUSA.ORG—Florida Parent Training and Information Center funded by DOED Offices of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Lainey Feingold's Global Law and Policy: United States – federal (national)
Headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based restaurant chain. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties, its two Miami-based franchisees David Edgerton (1927–2018) and James McLamore (1926–1996) purchased the company in 1959. [ 5 ]
[10] [11] The Supreme Court in 2023 explicitly rejected race-based affirmative action in college admissions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The Court held that affirmative action programs "lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial ...
The Breakers, the preeminent luxury hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, burned down after the wife of Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson left an electric curling iron plugged in. [89] All of the people inside escaped unharmed, including film actress Billie Burke and General Foods owner Marjorie Merriweather Post.