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  2. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    This case featured the first example of judicial review by the Supreme Court. Ware v. Hylton, 3 U.S. 199 (1796) A section of the Treaty of Paris supersedes an otherwise valid Virginia statute under the Supremacy Clause. This case featured the first example of judicial nullification of a state law. Fletcher v.

  3. Canterbury v. Spence - Wikipedia

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    Canterbury v. Spence (464 F.2d. 772, 782 D.C. Cir. 1972) was a landmark federal case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that significantly reshaped malpractice law in the United States. [1] [2] It established the idea of "informed consent" to medical procedures.

  4. Virginia v. Cherrix - Wikipedia

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    Virginia v. Cherrix is a 2006 court case in which the Commonwealth of Virginia sued to force Starchild Abraham ("Wolf") Cherrix (born June 1990), aged 16 at the time of the court case, to undergo further conventional medical treatment for a highly treatable form of cancer, Hodgkin disease .

  5. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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    A woman euthanizes her brother after he has medical problems. Jack Kevorkian: United States Michigan 1994 A medical doctor advocates for assisted suicide and the right to die. Robert Latimer: Canada Saskatchewan: 1993 A man euthanizes his child who has lived for years in pain. Karen Ann Quinlan case: United States New Jersey 1976

  6. Lists of landmark court decisions - Wikipedia

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    "Leading case" is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of "landmark case", as used in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Commonwealth countries, a reported decision is said to be a leading decision when it has come to be generally regarded as settling the law of the question involved.

  7. List of tort cases - Wikipedia

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    Palsgraf v. Long Island Rail Road Co.: Landmark case for discussion of proximate cause and its relationship with duty. Court of Appeals of New York. 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99. (1928) POKURA V. WABASH RY. CO., 292 U.S. 98 (1934) ([plaintiffs' negligence is determined by the facts and a reasonable person standard) Fletcher v.

  8. List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Roberts Court

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    limitations on exclusion of evidence in murder case, 6th Amendment: DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno: 547 U.S. 332 (2006) taxpayer standing in a Dormant Commerce Clause case Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. 547 U.S. 356 (2006) fiduciary's recovery of personal injury settlement under ERISA: eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. 547 U.S ...

  9. Jablonski by Pahls v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Jablonski by Pahls v. United States, 712 F.2d 391 (9th Cir. 1983) [1] is a landmark case in which the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a mental health professional's duty to predict dangerousness includes consulting a patient's prior records, and that their duty to protect includes the involuntary commitment of a dangerous individual; simply warning the foreseeable victim is ...