Keep in mind that although these studies have shown departures from guidelines, they haven't taken the next step and proved that those departures result in bad outcomes.
Yet one doctor argued that " in terms of diagnosis, full length of investigation, government hospitals are better because we have a strict protocol" (HP), although this was not supported by the evidence of frequent departures from guidelines.
In other cases, it's impossible to know whether a departure from the guidelines was for a good reason.
In the first case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in St . Louis said that such an "extraordinary" departure from the guidelines — no prison time at all — required an "extraordinary" justification.
"We routinely appeal where we think there are erroneous findings of fact," said Alice H. Martin, the United States attorney in Birmingham, who described the sentences as an "unacceptable downward departure" from sentencing guidelines.
Many judges, not just Ellis, chafe at the results of that judgment in cases dealing with large financial losses, which is why observers anticipated some downward departure from the guidelines here.
Trial judges are required to explain the basis for the sentences they impose, she added, with a major departure from the guidelines requiring "a more significant justification than a minor one".
It is also clear that a district judge must give serious consideration to the extent of any departure from the Guidelines and must explain his conclusion that an unusually lenient or an unusually harsh sentence is appropriate in a particular case with sufficient justifications.
Significant departure from these guidelines, e.g. trapping a large number of ions, is possible if a sample of laser-cooled atomic ions are co-trapped with the ion of interest.
The proposal, envisioned as a precautionary measure, is a departure from the guidelines the administration issued for returning medical volunteers.
The draft rules are a sharp departure from current guidelines, which have been in place for nearly two decades and specifically bar authorities from considering such non-cash benefits in deciding a person's eligibility to immigrate to the United States or stay in the country.
