But this is a criminal case, and the reasonable-person standard is irrelevant to a criminal trial.
"We believe that a sex-blind reasonable-person standard tends to be male-biased," Judge Beezer wrote.
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"Personal characteristics of suspects have consistently been rejected or ignored as irrelevant under a one-size-fits-all reasonable-person standard," Justice Alito wrote, adding, "There is no denying that, by incorporating age into its analysis, the court is embarking on a new expansion of the established custody standard".
On top of this, Britain's regulator for the communications industry, Ofcom, said last month that in light of the revelations of wrongdoing at the tabloids it was stepping up its investigation into whether BSkyB met the "fit and proper" person standard applied to the holders of broadcast licenses in Britain.
Prior to the start of the trial in the spring of 1987, a significant portion of the indictment was dismissed by a state supreme court judge due to the instructions to the grand jury associated with the reasonable person standard for self-defense; the charges were later reinstated by the Court of Appeals.
Three legal standards exist: the professional standard, the reasonable person standard, and the individual standard.
The reasonable person standard mandates disclosing whatever details a reasonable patient would find pertinent.
(Married taxpayers 65 and older already get an additional $1,050 per person standard deduction just for being old; singles get $1,350. So older homeowners would see their standard deduction increase to $14,000 for a couple or $7,300 for a single for 2008).
In that letter, OCR made clear that federally compliant harassment policies must include a "reasonable person" standard, meaning that in order to be considered harassment, the behavior in question must be both personally experienced as offensive and conduct that a "reasonable person" would find offensive.
