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A computed tomography scan ( CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body. [2] The personnel that perform CT scans are called radiographers or radiology technologists.
Cunningham v. California, 549 U.S. 270 (2007), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 6–3, that the sentencing standard set forward in Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000) applies to California 's determinate sentencing law. In California, a judge may choose one of three sentences for a crime—a low, middle ...
Democrats won 24 seats while Republicans won 12, expanding their majority by one seat. Constitutional amendment. Question 1 was a constitutional amendment proposition in Connecticut to authorize the state legislature to create a period of early voting for elections in the state of Connecticut.
History of Connecticut. The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663. Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English ...
The Connecticut Four are librarians who filed a lawsuit known as Doe v. Gonzales, challenging the constitutional validity of National Security Letters (NSL) issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the USA PATRIOT Act . In 2005 the Library Connection, a consortium of libraries sharing a common computer database, received a ...
Photograph by official White House photographer Michael Evans, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. A Katie Beckett waiver or TEFRA waiver is a Medicaid waiver concerning the income eligibility for home-based Medicaid services for children under the age of nineteen. Prior to the Katie Beckett waiver, if a child with significant ...
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction. [1] The case involved a Connecticut "Comstock law" that prohibited any person from using ...
Map of the United States with Connecticut highlighted. Census-designated places (CDPs) are unincorporated communities lacking elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status. Connecticut has 112 census-designated places. Some CDPs do not have separate pages from their parent town, while others are coterminous with their parent town.