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  1. Nous

    Taking a break from RF to attend to a project.

    Taking a break from RF to attend to a project.
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  2. Nous

    The Title X Gag Rule

    I agree with everything you said here. It is especially heartbreaking about the kids who don't have fit parents who won't give them up for adoption.
  3. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    The judge did make suggestions on how the ordinance could possibly be fixed. But I'm not sure her suggestions would do the trick -- and she seemed skeptical also.
  4. Nous

    Copyrights and patents

    What I quoted is from Black's ancient 2nd edition. Why would a legislature create a legal fiction? Legislatures do not need to assume something that is not true in order to make a situation fit an abstract rule. What are some of the legal fictions legislatures have supposedly concocted...
  5. Nous

    The Title X Gag Rule

    There's no need to bother me with nonsense. As obvious to everyone who can read and comprehend English, the words, "none of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning” do not mean or imply that doctors are forbidden to...
  6. Nous

    Cohen: “Trump is a racist, in private he is even worse.”

    His base knows it. That's why they like him.
  7. Nous

    Copyrights and patents

    You just have to get a couple of glasses of wine in me first. Then I'm hot.
  8. Nous

    Copyrights and patents

    I haven't misquoted Black's Law. It doesn't make sense to say that a legislature has created a legal fiction in order to outlaw it.
  9. Nous

    The Title X Gag Rule

    I am embarrassed to admit that for a long time I have been under the impression that there are a lot more children available for adoption in the US than there are, even more than 700,000. I've quoted figures on other boards; I don't know where I got them, and no one corrected me. Really, I...
  10. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    No, you need to read and understand the Tampa ordinance. It does not specify that the communication need be in a "therapeutic setting". It is explicitly a speaker-based and content-based restriction on speech. Let's say that I am a provider as the ordinance defines, and I have developed a close...
  11. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    Precedent requires strict scrutiny to ban such speech as banned by the Tampa ordinance. Can you argue that such a ban meets strict scrutiny?
  12. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    Trepanning, shock therapy, lobotomies, etc., are different kinds of things than the talking and listening that a provider -- such as specified in the Tampa ordinance -- engages in. Such a provider as specified in the Tampa ordinance need not touch the body of the patient. The Tampa ordinance...
  13. Nous

    The Title X Gag Rule

    Thank you. You are correct. I got the nearly 700,000 figure from the number given for how many children were served by foster care in 2017.
  14. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    Yes, those Schedule I substances cannot be prescribed. Name the medical treatments that are indirectly banned by these licensing regulations.
  15. Nous

    Copyrights and patents

    A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts[1] which is then used in order to help reach a decision or to apply a legal rule. Legal fiction - Wikipedia I guess a legislature can write and pass any group of words, but I don't know of any example where a legislature created an...
  16. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    @Kangaroo Feathers asked the questions I have, in his #31. What does "it" in your first sentence refer to?
  17. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    Bloodletting and trepanning are different kinds of things than speaking to another person, and banning the former is a different sort of thing than banning the communication of certain otherwise lawful words or messages. Right? In fact, there is a provision of the US Constitution that proscribes...
  18. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    The Tampa ordinance restricts what a provider may communicate with a patient, and what a patient may communicate with a provider.
  19. Nous

    Are Bans on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

    (1) There is no such selfish rationale that is part of any legal precedent. (2) Parents can become grandparents without needing to subject their minor children involuntarily to medical procedures or psychotherapies.
  20. Nous

    Copyrights and patents

    Legislatures don't create legal fictions, courts do in order to facilitate their reasoning in cases before the court.
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