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4.826 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
- 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
- Embodied equality: debunking equal protection arguments for abortion rights.
... to deny their fertility and reject their children. This Article seeks to systematically engage, on f..., equal citizenship): first, because such laws deny women both decisional and reproductive autono...(36) In Geduldig, the Court upheld a California disability insurance program that excluded normal ... children who are subject to their parents' abuse or neglect; once we grant that an individual unbor...
- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, June 2011
- 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
- Three concepts of dignity in constitutional law.
... of one's fellow citizens, as can be seen in laws against defamation and hate speech. The idea is th...In Cohen v. California, (114) the Court upheld the right of an individual... could not withhold public education from children who were illegally within the country. (217) Altho...The derision, hostility and abuse encouraged by hate propaganda therefore have a sev...
- Notre Dame Law Review
- Vol. 86 Nbr. 1, February 2011