The law represents "a radical departure from the status quo" by imposing a new requirement for pregnant teen-agers who since 1971 have been able to obtain abortions without parental or judicial consent, they said in a brief filed Wednesday by San Francisco attorney Linda E. Shostak.
In 1998, Mentor also entered into a judicial consent agreement with the F.D.A., a serious regulatory step, to correct deficiencies in manufacturing "that could potentially affect the safety and quality of the breast implants," the agency said at the time.
The agency has also become more vigilant about documenting foster care placements and ensuring that officials had proper judicial consent before placing children in the foster care system for more than six months, Mr. Rogan said.
In a June 7 blog post, Mr. Schaar had described the existence and reach of the Prism program as "outrageous," adding that such systematic surveillance without prior judicial consent would be illegal in Germany.
With parental or judicial consent, you can marry at 14 in some states, and in Massachusetts, for example, there is no minimum age.
In Texas, 14-year-olds can wed with judicial consent, and amazingly, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania will even allow 13-year-old girls to marry with parental consent and court permission.
This is expected to lead to a judicial consent decree, which would order fundamental changes in the way the police force does its work.
Kansas law allows anyone under 18 to marry with parental or judicial consent.
Such judicial consent agreements often take years to resolve, along with expensive outlays by manufacturers.
The legislation will allow 15-year-olds to marry if a judge determines it is in their best interest; 16- and 17-year-olds could marry with parental or judicial consent.
