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5.429 documents for california laws on child abuse

- Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn., 564 U.S. (2011)
... of the Court.We consider whether a California law imposing restrictions on violent video gam... be obscene from the perspective of a child.2 We held that the legislature could"adjus[..., sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse,"that were "'[h]armful to minors.' " A depiction w...-even a political rally in support of laws against corporalpunishment of children, or laws i...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The efficacy of severe child pornography sentencing: empirical validity or political rhetoric?
... for expanding the scope of child pornography laws and increasing the length of prison sentences for ...California. In Miller, the Court differentiated pornography, ... threat to the child victim than does sexual abuse or prostitution" because the material will continu...
- Stanford Law & Policy Review
- Vol. 22 Nbr. 2, March 2011
- Abbott v. Abbott, 560 U. S. (2010)
... on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Convention) and the implementing statut...[F]or 79% of our entire sample, the [California] divorce decree provided for joint legal custody�... custody in precise terms or referring to the laws of different nations pertaining to parental rights... is one of the worst forms of child abuse.” H. R. Rep. No. 103–390, p. 2 (1993). A chi...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Vengeance Time
No charges, however, were ever filed against him, even after investigations by the FBI, other law enforcement agencies, and the Diocese of Yakima. Angered by their failure to obtain a grand jury indictment, two lead prosecutors later publicly attacked the archdiocese for its alleged efforts to forestall legislative enactment of a California-style suspension of the statute of limitations to resuscitate time-barred suits, as well as other changes in the state's child-abuse laws. The Cultrera brothers' remarkable documentary Hand of God, recently broadcast on PBS, dramatically shows how a victim first sought only some recognition of the injuries he suffered at the hands of one of the Boston Archdiocese's worst offenders.
- Commonweal
- August 18, 2009
- Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. (2008)
... capital punishment for the rape of a child under 12. The State Supreme Court affirmed, reject...8 and 14, §1; Robinson v. California , 370 U. S. 660 (1962). Patrick Kennedy, the petit...S. L. testified that petitioner sexually abused her three times when she was eight years old and t... mandatory for those found guilty, and those laws were invalidated by Woodson and Roberts "). Thi...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- National Standards To Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape
The Department of Justice (Department) is issuing a final rule adopting , as required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA). In addition, the Department is requesting comment on one issue relating to staffing in juvenile facilities. Further discussion of the final rule is found in the Executive Summary.

... to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse in confinement facilities, pursuant to the Prison ... fundamental restructuring of existing State laws that permit or require such placement. Given the c..., the final standard requires a check of any child abuse registry maintained by the State or locality... correctional systems, including the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, have...
- Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 37105, June 20, 2012
- Rules and Regulations
- Justice Department
- State abortion restrictions and child fatal-injury: an exploratory study.
... made it illegal for states to implement laws prohibiting women from obtaining abortions. Howeve...One such risk factor is child physical abuse and neglect. For instance, Zuravin (1987) finds th... 1987 Arkansas No law Effected 1989 California No law No law Colorado No law No law Connecticut N...
- Southern Economic Journal
- Vol. 73 Nbr. 3, January 2007
- Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. (2011)
... DISTRICT AND THE NORTHERNDISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA[May 23, 2011] . JUSTICE KENNEDY delivered the opin...The three-judge court did not abuseits discretion when it also cited findings made in ear...for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Carey, 706 F. 2d956, 967 (CA2 1983) (Frie... policies and other related changes to the laws."Id., at 253a. It "reject[ed] the testimony that i...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- General Dynamics Corp. v. United States, 563 U.S. (2011)
... DISTRICT AND THE NORTHERNDISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA[May 23, 2011] . JUSTICE KENNEDY delivered the opin...The three-judge court did not abuseits discretion when it also cited findings made in ear...for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Carey, 706 F. 2d956, 967 (CA2 1983) (Frie... policies and other related changes to the laws."Id., at 253a. It "reject[ed] the testimony that i...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- United States v. Williams, 553 U.S. (2008)
... and distribution of material pandered as child pornography, regardless of whether it actually was...S. 747, and Miller v. California , 413 U. S. 15: obscene material depicting (actual... masturbation; "(iv) sadistic or masochistic abuse; or "(v) lascivious exhibition of the genitals or ... established criminal proscriptions-such as laws against conspiracy, incitement, and solicitation- ...
- U.S. Supreme Court