Grossman v. Baumgartner’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ferguson v. Skrupa · Lincoln Federal Labor Union No 19129 American Federation of Labor v. Northwestern Iron & Metal Co Whitaker · Matter of Application of Jacobs · People Ex Rel. Alpha Portland Cement Co. v. Knapp · People v. Mancuso
Most-quoted passages
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“"The record shows, to our minds conclusively, that the prohibition of lay tattooing was an advisable procedure for the security of life and health. It was established that hepatitis, a serious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure, is caused by a virus. This virus, which lives in the blood of infected persons, is transmitted to the healthy by injection into their blood or tissue of the blood or blood products of the infected. Such transmissions occur to persons who have been tattooed seven times more frequently than they occur in persons who have not been tattooed. Concededly, restricting the spread of hepatitis is a proper subject of Health Code regulations. And it would appear to be uncontradictable that tattooing is a source of the spread of this dread disease. It would therefore follow indisputably that the control of tattooing comes well within the field of securing the health of the community."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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