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  2. Protected health information - Wikipedia

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    Protected health information (PHI) under U.S. law is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that is created or collected by a Covered Entity (or a Business Associate of a Covered Entity), and can be linked to a specific individual. This is interpreted rather broadly and includes any part of a ...

  3. Privacy laws of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Although privacy is often a common-law tort, most states have enacted statutes that prohibit the use of a person's name or image if used without consent for the commercial benefit of another person. [22] Appropriation of name or likeness occurs when a person uses the name or likeness of another person for personal gain or commercial advantage.

  4. Illinois Freedom of Information Act - Wikipedia

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    Freedom of Information Act 83rd Illinois General Assembly Citation 5 ILCS 140/1 et seq. Public Act 83-1013 Passed June 28, 1983 Signed by Governor James R. Thompson (after amendatory veto agreed to by the General Assembly) Signed December 27, 1983 Effective July 1, 1984 Legislative history Bill title House Bill 234 Introduced by Barbara Flynn Currie (House) Terry L. Bruce (Senate) Amended by ...

  5. Mental health law - Wikipedia

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    Mental health-related legal concepts include mens rea, insanity defences; legal definitions of "sane," "insane," and "incompetent;" informed consent; and automatism, amongst many others. Statutory law usually takes the form of a mental health statute. An example is the Mental Health Act 1983 in England and Wales. These acts codify aspects of ...

  6. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental health

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    BOR, 14th. 1975. Drope v. Missouri. When deciding whether to evaluate a criminal defendant's competency, the court must consider any evidence suggestive of mental illness, even one factor alone in some circumstances. Therefore, the threshold for obtaining a competency evaluation is low.

  7. List of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 October 2024. The following is a list of mental disorders as defined at any point by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). A mental disorder, also known as a mental illness, mental health condition, or psychiatric ...

  8. Lanterman–Petris–Short Act - Wikipedia

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    Lanterman–Petris–Short Act. The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act (Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures ...

  9. Duty to warn - Wikipedia

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    [15] [page needed] [16] The court held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient. The original 1974 decision mandated warning the threatened individual, but a 1976 rehearing of the case by the California Supreme Court called for a "duty to protect" the intended victim.