Word: cases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is not another [John Peter] Zenger case," Murphy said, referring to the famous case that helped define a free press. "It's a case where two students had a responsibility and the advisor didn't feel they carried it out. It's not more grandiose than that. They were not disciplined beyond that. That would be overkill," Murphy said...
...letters to the editors that followed my piece, I saw case studies in each of these reactions, (although I wouldn't claim that all of the authors were Zealots by my definition...
...Street is far from complete. "Factual" or not, sarcastic criticism is arrogant and pompous. When such an accusation is left unsigned--as it was on Saturday--it is also an act of cowardice. The comic irony, of course, is that the issue addressed by the anonymous writer in this case relied upon the fact that Indy staffers Cornwell and Lattmann identified themselves as authors--a minimal journalistic standard with which your writer did not even comply. We wonder...
...state, and that a loving family is the best surrogate to decide what medical course an incompetent relative would choose. In 1983 a presidential medical- ethics commission endorsed the principle of family surrogate decision making, and so have many state courts since the 1976 landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, in which the New Jersey Supreme Court permitted the Quinlan family to remove her from a respirator. Although who decides and what proof is required have differed, most state courts have found a way to accommodate those who seek to let a death proceed...
...issues in the Cruzan case are ultimately both profound and perplexing. "If only the ambulance had arrived five minutes earlier," muses Joe Cruzan, "or five minutes later." But even as he muses, and as the Supreme Court ponders, other ambulances are reaching other patients at that same fateful juncture of too late and too soon...