Some ethicists, such as David Velleman at New York University, argue that giving the very ill the choice to commit suicide easily and legally harms all ill people by taking from them the option of continuing to live by default.We expect human beings to provide reasons for their choices.
8's proponents have what's known as standing to argue on its behalf in court — they stepped in after the State of California dropped its defense, but they may be deemed not to have met the federal court rule that they were legally harmed by the lower-court decision.
Being portrayed as a homosexual, the logic goes, simply is not a legally recognizable harm.
Indeed, the toymakers are usually held liable legally for harm caused by the toys they make.
Insofar as the list was concerned, the majority thought that any legally significant harm to Lamont as a result of being listed was merely a speculative possibility, and so on this score the controversy was not yet ripe for adjudication.
Similar legally endorsed harm is a familiar theme in the history of women, racial minorities, native people, and gays and lesbians.
Asserting the privilege requires the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to certify legally the potential harm to national security.
Moreover, if SCOTUS deems choice based upon ideology to be legally cognizable as harm, the floodgates to lawsuits from all sides will be thrown wide open.
Toward the end of May, other supporters of Morse released a video of a petition gatherer insisting that Morse was again drafting legislation that would hold manufacturers and sellers of assault rifles legally liable for harm inflicted by the weapon -- a measure that Morse did back earlier in 2013, but did not pass in the statehouse.
When one of them approached the foot of the structure, gazing up at the patients, Little Huang and Mr. Wang screamed out their demands: find experts to treat them; arrest the physicians and nurses who conned them; ban the surgery that had made them all "eunuchs"; and pay for them to collectively undergo medical testing, the first step in legally proving the harm the surgery had caused.
