1. New Hampshire Bar Association MENTAL PHYSICAL DISABILITIES LAW Chair Carol M. Stamatkis Vice Chair Raymond A. Foss Clerk I. Kristine Bergstrom Members 33. MILITARY LAW Chair Colonel Peter J. Duffy Vice Chair http://www.martindale.com/Professional_Development/Bar_Associations/US_State/new

2. Call For Leaders Center for Children and the Law • Commissions • Domestic Violence • Homelessness and Poverty • Lawyer Assistance Programs • Mental Physical Disabilities Law • Racial and http://www.abanet.org/lsd/elections/poster.pdf

3. About NH Social Security And Family Law Firm Spiller Law Firm, PLLC Attorney Spiller is a past Vice Chairperson of the Mental Physical Disabilities Law Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association. While a student at Franklin Pierce Law Center http://spillerlawfirm.com/about_firm.html

Linda J. Spiller, Esq. Attorney Spiller was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in October 2001 after graduating from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 2001. She was also admitted to practice in federal court at the United States District Court, District of New Hampshire in October 2001. Attorney Spiller first became involved in Social Security Disability (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claims while a student at Franklin Pierce Law Center Civil Practice Clinic in 1998. She has been successfully representing claimants before the Social Security Administration since opening her own practice in 2002. Attorney Spiller is uniquely qualified to understand the issues and difficulties that individuals who are disabled face as she has faced and overcome multiple disabilities since birth. Her own understanding of the daily challenges faced by individuals with disabilities help her advocate for her clients with a better understanding. Many of her family law clients also have disabilities as well and frequently receive Social Security Disability or SSI. Attorney Spiller's experience before the Social Security

4. Persistent Vegetative State - Issues In Law And Medicine Haimowitz, S., Casenote; Right to die order vacated after patient awakens from persistent vegetative state, Mental Physical Disabilities Law Reporter, 13, 5, 440442 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~borth/PVSILM.HTM

THE PERMANENT VEGETATIVE STATE; ETHICAL CRUX, MEDICAL FICTION? By Chris Borthwick Abstract In 1994 a Multi-Society Task Force made up of representatives of the American Academy of Neurology, the Child Neurology Society, the American Neurological Association, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the American Academy of Pediatrics produced a Consensus Statement on the Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). This Statement presents a picture of the degree of diagnostic certainty achievable in this area that is in many respects misleading. Its attempt to propose a condition called Permanent Vegetative State, which would be based on a high degree of medical certainty either that there is no further hope for recovery of consciousness or that, if consciousness were recovered, the patient would be left severely disabled, confuses two different issues. In 1994 a Multi-Society Task Force made up of representatives of the American Academy of Neurology, the Child Neurology Society, the American Neurological Association, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the American Academy of Pediatrics produced a Consensus Statement on the Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). The vegetative state can be diagnosed according to the following criteria; (1) no evidence of awareness of self or environment and an inability to interact with others; (2) no evidence of sustained, reproducible, purposeful, or voluntary behavioural responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli; (3) no evidence of language comprehension or expression; (4) intermittent wakefulness manifested by the presence of sleep-wake cycles; (5) sufficiently preserved hypothalamic and brain-stem autonomic function to permit survival with medical and nursing care; (6) bowel and bladder incontinence; and (7) variably preserved cranial-nerve reflexes (pupillary, oculophalic, corneal, vestibulo-ocular, and gag) and spinal reflexes..... A wakeful unconscious state that lasts longer than a few weeks is referred to as a persistent vegetative state.

5. University Of Maryland School Of Law, Baltimore, Md. 97 (July 12, 2002) Clinical Law Review • Building Community, Recognizing Dignity Beyond the ADA, (with Professor Alan Hornstein) 25 293 (2002) Mental Physical Disabilities Law http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/profiles/cv/Karen_Rothenberg.pdf

6. Courthouse Access Advisory Committee Report Justice for All Designing Accessible Courthouses Recommendations from the Courthouse Access Advisory Committee http://www.access-board.gov/caac/report.htm

Committee Homepage Justice for All: Designing Accessible Courthouses Recommendations from the Courthouse Access Advisory Committee November 15, 2006 PDF version Contents Acknowledgements Members of the Courthouse Access Advisory Committee I. Introduction II. Recommendations for Accessible Courthouse Design ... Appendices Acknowledgements City of Phoenix Municipal Courthouse Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia Court of Appeals Cook County Domestic Violence Courthouse in Chicago California Supreme Court in San Francisco Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco Federal Courthouse in Miami Miami-Dade Family Court Edward W. Brooke Courthouse in Boston John Adams Courthouse in Boston Members of the Courthouse Access Advisory Committee Accessibility Equipment Manufacturers Association, Gregory L. Harmon Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Gate Lew, AIA American Institute of Architects, James L. Beight, AIA and Andrew Goldberg, Assoc. AIA American Bar Association, Honorable Norma L. Shapiro

7. Abbreviations Of Law Reports, Laws And Agencies MPDLR = Amer. Bar Assn’s Mental Physical Disabilities Law Reporter, www.abanet.org/ MSPB = U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, www.mspb.gov/ http://www.aele.org/abbreviations.html

Abbreviations of law reports, laws and agencies www.lexis.com/ www.westlaw.com/ A.2d = West’s Atlantic Reporter AAA = American Arbitration Ass’n, www.adr.org/ ABA = American Bar Assn., www.abanet.org/ ADA = U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 AD Cases (BNA) = Americans with Disabilities Cases ADEA = U.S. Age Discrimination in Employment Act ALJ = Administrative Law Judge Black, Black’s = Black’s Law Dictionary (West Pub.) BNA = Bureau of National Affairs, www.bna.com/ CBA = Collective bargaining agreement (labor contract) Cal.Rptr.2d = West’s California Reporter C.D.O.S. = California Daily Opinion Service C.F.R. = Code of Federal Regulations CrL = Criminal Law Reporter, www.bna.com/ DoJ; DoL = U.S. Dept. of Justice; Dept. of Labor EEOC = U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, www.eeoc.gov/ Emp.Disc.Rep. = BNA’s Employment Discrimination Rep. ERB, ERC = [state] Employment Relations Board, Commission ERISA = U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act FEP Cases = BNA’s Fair Employment Cases F.2d, F.3d = West’s Federal Reporter (U.S. Appeals Courts)

8. Publications By Harold J. Bursztajn Mental Physical Disabilities Law Reporter. 1987; 11446449. Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Mills M. Parens Patriae considerations in the commitment process. http://www.pipatl.org/bibliography/bursztajn.html

Publications by Harold J. Bursztajn BIBLIOGRAPHY Bursztajn HJ. Forensic psychiatry: The ethics of mentally impaired patient termination in captive situations. Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, University of Maryland School of Law, Spring, 2002: 7. Bursztajn HJ. The role of a training protocol in formulating patient instructions as to terminal care choices. J Med Educ. 1977; 52:347-348. Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM. Medical maxims: two views of science. Yale J Biol Med. 1979; 52:483-486. Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM. The clinical utility of utility assessment. Med Decision Making. 1982; 2:162-165. Wulsin LR, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG. Unexpected clinical features of the Tarasoff decision: the therapeutic alliance and the "duty to warn." Am J Psychiatry. 1983; 140:601-603. Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Subjective data and suicide assessment in the light of recent legal developments. Part I: Malpractice prevention and the use of subjective data. Int J Law Psychiatry. 1983; 6:317-329. Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Subjective data and suicide assessment in the light of recent legal developments. Part II: Clinical uses of legal standards in the interpretation of subjective data. Int J Law Psychiatry. 1983; 6:331-350.

9. Maryland Law | Alan Hornstein Building Community, Recognizing Dignity Beyond the ADA, 25 Mental Physical Disabilities Law Reporter 709 (2002) (with Karen Rothenberg). A Match Made in Maryland Howard Chasanow http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/profiles/faculty.html?facultynum=066

10. Supreme.lp.findlaw.com Robert Burgdorf Jr. and Christopher Bell, Eliminating Discrimination Against Physically and Mentally Handicapped Persons A Statutory Blueprint, 8 Mental Physical Disabilities Law http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/00-24/00-24.mer.ami.dole.html

Not a Legal Professional? Visit our consumer site Register Login Search ... Newsletters dart_call("728x90", "loc=top;ptile=1", 0); MAIN cases docket decisions ... calendar Supreme Court Briefs No. 00-24 In the Supreme Court of the United States PGA Tour, Inc. Petitioner, v. Casey Martin, Respondent. On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit BRIEF AMICI CURIAE OF THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. DOLE, TOM HARKIN, STENY H. HOYER, JAMES M. JEFFORDS AND EDWARD M. KENNEDY IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT George G. Olsen David A. Starr 1155 21st Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 Robert L. Burgdorf Jr. Counsel of Record University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW Building 38, Room 204 Washington, DC 20008 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF AUTHORITIES INTEREST OF THE AMICI CURIAE SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT ARGUMENT Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act Prohibits Discrimination on the Basis of Disability Against Athletes and Other Performers at Places of Public Accommodation ... CONCLUSION In the Supreme Court of the United States No. 00-24

11. State Statutes Prohibiting The Death Penalty For People With Mental Retardation Source Denis W. Keyes and William J. Edwards, Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty Current Status of Exemption Legislation, 687 Mental Physical Disabilities Law Reporter http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-statutes-prohibiting-death-penalty-people-

Skip to Navigation Home Issues Arbitrariness ... Donate State Statutes Prohibiting the Death Penalty for People with Mental Retardation Posted: October 21, 2002 in Mental Retardation NOTE : The statutes listed in this chart were all passed prior to the United States Supreme Court Ruling in Atkins v. Virginia . For a listing of statutes passed following the ruling in order to comply with said ruling, Click Here State Statute Citation Definition of Mental Retardation Qualified Examiners Arizona Ariz. Rev. Stat. Sect. 13-3982 A condition based on a mental deficit that has resulted in significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with significant limitations in adaptive functioning, where the onset of the forgoing conditions occurred before the defendant reached the age of eighteen. Requires the trial court in a capital case to appoint a licensed psychologist to conduct a prescreening evaluation to determine the defendant's IQ. Arkansas Ark. Code Ann. Sect. 5-4-618 (1993) Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning accompanied by significant deficits or impairments in adaptive functioning, and manifested in the developmental period. The age of onset is 18. There is a rebuttable presumption of mental retardation when the defendant has an IQ of 65 or below. There is no information on this aspect of the statute.

12. New Hampshire Bar Association - Publications Effective Representation of a Client with a Mental Disability original Mental Physical Disabilities Law Section Member $75.00 http://www.legalspan.com/nhbar/self-study.asp?UGUID=&CategoryID=200409175118

13. NHBA - Bar News Issue Mental Physical Disabilities Law Section (all reelected) Chair - Carol Stamatakis Vice Chair - Barbara Maloney Clerk - Aaron Ginsberg Military Law Section http://www.nhbar.org/publications/archives/display-news-issue.asp?id=5571

14. NH Bar Association Section Signup Form Health Law Section θ INTE Intellectual Property Law Section θ INTL International Law θ LABO Labor Employment Law Section θ MENT Mental Physical Disabilities Law Section θ MILI http://www.nhbar.org/uploads/pdf/NHBASectionSignupForm.pdf

15. Amy B. Messer She is a member of the NHBA’s Mental Physical Disabilities Law Section. Amy is also a Board Member and Public Policy Chair for the NH Brain Injury Association, a member of the http://www.legalspan.com/catalog2/faculty.asp?UserID=D200307167911816680636 &

16. Call For Leaders Center for Children and the Law • Commissions • Domestic violence • Homelessness and Poverty • Lawyer Assistance Programs • Mental Physical Disabilities Law • Racial and http://www.abanet.org/lsd/elections/flyer.pdf

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