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...another. Brooklyn Family Court Judge Harold Felix has attacked all that in the case of an infant whom a hospital found suffering from broken legs and ribs. Charged with abuse, the parents sought dismissal for lack of evidence against them. Judge Felix invoked the negligence-law principle of res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself). When he got no satisfactory explanation, he took the child away from its parents, setting a precedent that courts in other states may well find persuasive...
...Ipsa Loquitur. A.M.A. studies show that two-thirds of malpractice claims originate from in-hospital incidents. Sponges occasionally are sewn into patients' stomachs (a group of California hospitals recently reported a run on "lost sponges"-18 in a single year). Obstetricians have been known to deliver one baby and quit, leaving its twin behind. Surgeons have removed a kidney only to discover that one is all the patient had. A more common cause: transfusions of mismatched blood, which kill about 3,000 patients a year in the U.S., injure thousands more. In such cases, where human error is clearly...
...Cessante ratione, cessat ipsa lex" is a learned and Latin way of saying that when the reason for a law ceases to exist, the law itself dies with it. And to a distinguished professor up at the Law School, this little tag strikes at the very root of the legal system. In fact, it is reliably reported that this jurist injects the quotation at least four times into each of the profound and erudite dissertations he hurls at his disciples Mondays through Thursdays...
...Cessat ipsa...
...HOLC and RFC had bailed insurance" companies out of some $523,000,000 of troublesome assets, declared U. S. life insurance policies "the safest of all possible securities." Later when newshawks asked him if the conference was, in effect, a retort to GOPartisan Knox, the President replied: "Res ipsa loquitur...