Religion & Law

Carol Sanger, Seeing and Believing: Mandatory Ultrasound and the Path to a Protected Choice
Abstract: Several state legislatures now require that before a woman may consent to an abortion, she must first undergo an ultrasound and be offered the image of her fetus. The justification is that without an ultrasound, her consent will not be fully informed...

Informed Consent or Compelled Speech
The Eighth Circuit has overturned an injunction granted to Planned Parenthood that prevented the South Dakota informed consent abortion statute from going into effect. The ASCBlog reports on the case and states, An en banc panel of the U...

South Dakota's "Informed Consent Law" and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
New England Journal of Medicine: South Dakota's Abortion Script Threatening the Physician-Patient Relationship, by Zita Lazzarini: Under a law that went into effect in July, physicians in South Dakota must tell any woman seeking an abortion that she is terminating...

Emily Bazelon on South Dakota's So-Called "Informed Consent" Law
Slate: Telling Doctors What To Think, by Emily Bazelon: In 2005, South Dakota passed an unprecedented abortion law. The statute purports to be about ensuring that patients give informed consent...

Vars on Med Mal Consent
Fredrick Vars (Alabama) has posted Illusory Consent: When an Incapacitated Patient Agrees to Treatment on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Medical treatment requires informed consent, which in turn requires decision making capacity...

C is for Consent
The Wall Street Journal report "The Informed Patient" starts with this unsurprising info:"Informed consent may be the biggest misnomer in medicine: Studies show that most patients don't read the forms they sign before undergoing surgery or medical treatment...

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Employment Contracts
General Contract Law Principles

Ivy Lawn
alleging employees informed grave robbers of valuables buried with loved ones.

T-Mobile USA
alleging the company charged customers for services without their consent.

False Claims
Attorney Robert Arledge ordered to pay $5.8 million after making false Fen Phen settlement claims.

Aetna Life Insurance
Houston Woman Denied $426,000

Facebook / Blockbuster
alleging that Facebook distributed your Blockbuster movie rental information without your knowledge or consent.

Food Stamp Fraud
Woman to pay $48,530 settlement in TennCare lawsuit.