TIONS danger to himself (or herself or others) or is not mentally ill—hence, not committable—but
he (or she) has made a threat to harm another (or, in some jurisdictions, a suicide threat)…

… Paul Herbert is a psychiatrist in Ventura, CA (and was a law clerk at the California Supreme
Court at the time Tarasoff was argued and decided). Address correspondence to: Paul …

Valproate is a safe and effective antiepileptic and thymoleptic drug. An intravenous form has
been available since December 1996; it is approved for the treatment of complex partial and …

Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law
school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of …

The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining
his exertions with those of his fellow creatures and of acting in common with them. The right …

The powers of the government of the state of Mississippi shall be divided into three distinct
departments, and each of them confided to a separate magistracy, to-wit: those which are …

Under the US Supreme Court's 1989 decision in Stanford v. Kentucky, the Eighth Amendment's
cruel and unusual punishments clause does not shield minors 16 or 17 years of age from …

Writers in the pluralist tradition frequently mislabel Japan in the period 1937 ー 1941 militarist
rather than faScist, thereby leaving the impression of a one-dimensional rule by the military…

The California Evidence Code is now seventeen years old, a span long enough to have
resolved most major ambiguities and interstices. In 1983, as always, the output of the courts of …

Until the Warren Court's" criminal procedure revolution" in the 1960's, the constitutionality of
an interrogation turned simply on whether the suspect's answers were determined to have …