Following Gov. Chris Christie signing the bill that banned gay conversion therapy in New Jersey, the group announced that they would be filing suit against the state, invoking the case of Jerry Sandusky and claiming that gay identity stems from childhood molestation.
Still, "compared to Terri Schiavo, the cost is negligible," said Dr. Berman, invoking the case of the comatose young Florida woman whose court case has probably led to more advance directives than any other event.
By invoking the case of Jerry Sandusky, Staver not only attempts to construct gay identity as a "problem to be corrected" stemming from childhood molestation, but also dredges up an extremely high-profile case of molestation charges in order to create a culture of fear surrounding Bill A3371.
Nice-based attorney and family law expert Marie-Pierre Lazard-Pourcines told VICE News that Article 175-2 is often invoked in cases of lack of consent involving minors, but that she had never heard of a case where the article had been invoked over suspected coerced radicalization.
That doctrine has been invoked in cases involving the protection of Chicago's lakefront and of Mono Lake in the Sierra Nevada.
On eight of the 11 occasions when the act has been invoked in cases involving dock workers, the dispute re-emerged after 80 days.
Among more recent comparisons invoked were cases involving the Formula One boss Max Mosley and a footballer known initially as CTB, later revealed to be the Manchester United player Ryan Giggs.
However, many of the news reports and inflamed commentaries have gone beyond expressing outrage at the teenagers involved and instead invoked such cases as evidence of a modern epidemic of "mean girls" that adults simply fail to comprehend.
In the endless debates about what constitutes "fake news," we tend to invoke clear cases of unfounded rumor or outright deceit ("Melania has a body double," or "President Trump saves two cats from drowning after Hurricane Harvey").
Often arbitration clauses are invoked in cases where consumers feel they have been financially slighted seeing charges on their phone bills for services they never wanted, for instance but the Times investigation found arbitrations used in more serious cases of medical malpractice, theft, hate crimes, and discrimination.
