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How to Help a Mentally Ill Person Who Stops Taking Medication
One recurring problem that I observe in the practice of family law is when a person who suffers from mental illness stops taking medication. With this problem in mind, I began to search for solutions. This is what I found: About one-third of people with...
A Better Way to Die
Unless the way healthcare is organized changes, most people will continue to suffer unnecessarily at the end. In the United States, many deaths are preceded by a surge of treatment, which is often pointless. The way healthcare is funded encourages over-treatment. ...
Secrets and Their Implications
Keeping a secret is hard. As a matter of professional ethics, lawyers are required to keep a client's confidences. These confidential communications can be understood as secrets. In a recent study, Michael Slepian of Columbia University, addressed the question of...
It’s Not About the Money
For decades, Stephen Bright has worked to provide the quality of legal representation to the powerless and impoverished that only the wealthiest clients could afford. All the while, he has done so on a shoestring, forsaking the riches his profession could bring....
Florida Legislature Seeks Term Limits on Judges
The Florida house has passed a constitutional amendment that would ask voters to impose term limits on appellate judges and state Supreme Court justices. The state Senate has yet to act on this amendment and it has been suggested that the Senate should reject this...
The Remarkable Aaron Burr
“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.” - Aaron Burr Aaron Burr was the third vice president of the United States, serving under President Thomas Jefferson. Burr fatally shot his rival, Alexander Hamilton, during a duel. As a revolutionary...
Buck v. Bell: An Embarrassment in American Jurisprudence
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes One of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history, according to journalist Adam Cohen, was the 1927 decision upholding a state's right to forcibly sterilize a person considered unfit to procreate -...
Understanding The Constitution
State Representative Dr. Julio Gonzalez, a Venice republican, has proposed legislation to allow the Florida legislature to override Florida Supreme Court decisions. This proposed law has caused much discussion. The Federalists Papers, No. 78, provides that the...
Trump Chooses Sessions
Donald Trump has chosen Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as the 84th Attorney General of the United States. In 1986, Sessions was nominated to be a judge of the U.S. District Court. Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote to the Senate Judiciary...