Why the fair innings argument is not persuasive

The fair innings argument (FIA) is frequently put forward as a justification for denying elderly patients treatment when they are in competition with younger patients and resources are scarce. In this paper I will examine some arguments that are used to support the FIA. My conclusion will be that they do not stand up to scrutiny and therefore, the FIA should not be used to justify the denial of treatment to elderly patients, or to support rationing of health care by age.

Enhancing Conservation Options: An Argument for Statutory Recognition of Options to Purchase Conservation Easements (OPCEs)

The most dynamic component of the conservation movement in the United States for the past three decades has been land conservation transactions. In the United States, land conservation organizations have protected roughly 40 million acres of land through transactions. Most of these acres have been protected using conservation easements. Climate change threatens the vast conservation edifice created by land conservation transactions. The tools of land conservation transactions are, traditionally, stationary. Climate change means that the resources that land conservation transactions were intended to protect may no longer remain on the land protected. Options to purchase conservation easements (OPCEs) have long played a modest but important role in conservation law practice. In the world climate change is creating, with its substantial uncertainties and shifting windows of opportunity, OPCEs can serve more complicated and strategic purposes. The ability of OPCEs to serve important roles in protecting land in the context of uncertainty would be significantly increased if state legislatures amend current conservation easement statutes to (1) specifically recognize OPCEs, (2) immunize OPCEs from a range of potential common law challenges, (3) guarantee the durability and transferability of OPCEs, and (4) integrate OPCEs into the burgeoning body of conservation easement law. These statutory amendments would do for OPCEs what conservation easement statutes have done for conservation easements: transform them into an essential multi-purpose tool for conservation in a changing world.

An argument for an eight-hour law

by Walter S. Logan.

Tutor Sever's Final Argument, 1722

This marbled hardcover volume contains a forty-one-page handwritten draft of the memorial from Nicholas Sever to the Harvard Board of Overseers providing a historical background on the College charters. The document begins, "May it please ye Excell: of ye Coll: to fav'r me w'th a few words for ye further support of this memorial." The draft includes struck-through words and page 41 contains directions for additional edits.

Report of the Secretary of State on the claim of Patterson and Murguiendo with a further argument of the claimants.

Mode of access: Internet.

The law of charitable uses : argument of Wm. Curtis Noyes, before the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, in the case of Beekman, administrator, &c., against the people, &c., and others, in behalf of Thomas Beekman, one of the respondents, with an appendix containing the will.

W. Barthrop's will and codicils: p. 93-102.

Argument of Charles F. Choate, esq., in behalf of the Northern (N.H.) railroad, against the consolidation of the Boston & Lowell and Fitchburg railroads, before the railway committee of the Massachusetts legislature, February 26, 1873.

Mode of access: Internet.

Argument submitted on behalf of the Kansas Pacific Railway Co., before the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney-General of the U.S. /

Includes a bill filed by the Kansas Pacific and Denver railway companies to compel the Union Pacific Railroad Company to operate and use its road as required by the several acts of Congress relating thereto.

Rates and the housing question in London : an argument for the rating of site values /

Reprinted by permission from the final volume of "Life and labour of the people of London."

Le couvent sur l'eau = (Il convento veneziano) : comédie chorégraphique : sur un argument de J.L. Vaudoyer /

Mode of access: Internet.

An Argument against immediately repealing the laws which treat the nuptial bond as indissoluble /

Mode of access: Internet.

Argument of George S. Philbrick, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, Sept. 15, 1887.

Mode of access: Internet.

Argument of Chauncey M. Depew, general councel New York Central & Hudson Company, before Assembly Committee on Railroads, Legislature state of New York : in opposition to the bills providing for the creation of a board of railroad commissioners : March 16, 1881.

Cover title.