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  2. Jacobson v. Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Massachusetts law empowered the board of health of individual cities and towns to enforce mandatory, free vaccinations for adults over the age of 21 if the municipality determined it was necessary for the public health or safety of the community. [2] Adults who refused were subject to a $5 fine (about $176 in 2023 dollars). [2]

  3. Abington School District v. Schempp - Wikipedia

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    Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), [1] was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp, on behalf of his son Ellery Schempp, and declared that school-sponsored Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the United States was unconstitutional.

  4. American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct

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    Although the MRPC generally is not binding law in and of itself, it is intended to be a model for state regulators of the legal profession (such as bar associations) to adopt, while leaving room for state-specific adaptations. [1] All fifty states and the District of Columbia have adopted legal ethics rules based at least in part on the MRPC ...

  5. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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    Within 48 hours of being put on Paxil Schell killed his wife, daughter, infant granddaughter, and himself. Tim Tobin, Schell's son-in-law, took legal action against SmithKline (now GlaxoSmithKline). The Tobin case was heard in Wyoming from May 21 to June 6, 2001. The jury returned a guilty verdict against SmithKline and awarded Tobin $6.4 million.

  6. Frankfurt cases - Wikipedia

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    A second response is to revise the Frankfurt-style cases. This revision consists in creating a case with an explicit indeterministic connection where the agent is still morally responsible without any alternate possibilities. These kind of Frankfurt-style cases do it by incorporating buffer zones that act to eliminate alternate possibilities. [11]

  7. R v Dudley and Stephens - Wikipedia

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    The case is one of a few criminal cases taught to all law students in England and Wales and in many, though not all, former British territories and has long been so. [citation needed] It is also a standard legal case taught to first-year American law students and is often the first criminal case read in American law schools. [citation needed]

  8. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    This case was the beginning of the plenary power legal doctrine that has been used in Indian case law to limit tribal sovereignty. Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884) An Indian cannot make himself a citizen of the United States without the consent and the co-operation of the United States Federal government. United States v.

  9. Moral responsibility - Wikipedia

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    The notion of free will has become an important issue in the debate on whether individuals are ever morally responsible for their actions and, if so, in what sense. Incompatibilists regard determinism as at odds with free will, whereas compatibilists think the two can coexist. Moral responsibility does not necessarily equate to legal ...