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Shocks the conscience is a phrase used as a legal standard in the United States and Canada. An action is understood to "shock the conscience" if it is "grossly unjust to the observer."[1]

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Shocks the conscience

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Shocks the conscience is a phrase used as a legal standard in the United States and Canada. An action is understood to "shock the conscience" if it is...

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Pyrrhic defeat theory

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that an action shocks the conscience collective because it is criminal, but rather that it is criminal because it shocks the conscience collective. We...

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Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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possible that a potential punishment in the receiving country "shocks the conscience" to the extent that the Canadian government would breach fundamental...

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Genocide

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human beings; such denial of the right of existence shocks the conscience of mankind, results in great losses to humanity in the form of cultural and other...

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Flint water crisis

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lesions, and "brain fog". The complaint alleges that the officials' conduct was "reckless and outrageous" and "shocks the conscience and was deliberately indifferent...

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Genocide definitions

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suffix -cide by Raphael Lemkin in 1944; however, the precise etymology of the word is a compound of the ancient Greek word γένος ("birth", "genus", or "kind")...

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Darnell Earley

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that it shocks the conscience" and that "For more than 18 months, state and local government officials ignored irrefutable evidence that the water pumped...

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Jeannie Oakes

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Removing the Roadblocks: Fair College Opportunities for All California Students (2006). Schools That Shock the Conscience: Williams v. California and the Struggle...

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United States Department of Health and Human Services

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Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2019. "Opinion | A judge says Trump's family separation policy 'shocks the conscience.' We agree"...

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Rick Snyder

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so egregious and so outrageous that it shocks the conscience. "4 families sue over lead in Flint water". The Detroit News. November 15, 2015. Retrieved...

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Milgram experiment

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electric shocks to a "learner". These sham or fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real. The experiments...

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Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

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about the tape, if they took any action and, in the event that they didn't, why not. "It shocks the conscience," he said. The controversy over the torture...

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Fruit of the poisonous tree

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would shock the conscience of the court. Admissibility of evidence in Indian courts hinges primarily on relevance and then on the source. The Supreme...

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Mike Nifong

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evidence that could have cleared the players. The players' motion also alleged that Nifong's misconduct "shocks the conscience and defies any notion of accident...

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Danny Lockin

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prison sentence and it did not "shock the conscience of the court," the trial judge increased Hopkins' sentence from the usual three years to four years...

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United States v Burns

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Schmidt, if the harm faced by the extradited persons is serious enough, it "shocks the conscience" of the Canadian population. Still, the Kindler case...

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Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985

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shocks the conscience." When an employee is discharged for gross misconduct, the employer is not required to offer COBRA continuation coverage to the...

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Geoffrey Berman

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conference: "The alleged behavior shocks the conscience. And while the charged conduct is from a number of years ago, it is still profoundly important to the many...

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Drug test

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shocks the conscience or constitutes outrageous government conduct), and the prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures contained in the Fourth...

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Jus ad bellum

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intervention, particularly when actions "shock the conscience". The responsibility to protect covers more in depth the nature of humanitarian intervention...

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Schism of 1552

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allowed one man to take three wives, an abominable crime which shocks the conscience of men and beasts alike. He let another man without either schooling...

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The Awakening Conscience

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The Awakening Conscience (1853) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...

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