Open AccessSection 7, Insite and the Comptence of Courts
Author(s) -
Jeremy Webber
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
constitutional forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-4165
pISSN - 0847-3889
DOI - 10.21991/c91d4x
Subject(s) - plaintiff , downtown , section (typography) , business , economic justice , drug trafficking , law , political science , criminology , medicine , advertising , psychology , pathology
In the Insite case, the plaintiffs came to court with a very specific end in mind: to preserve the Insite safe-injecting facility. They did so for reasons of substantive justice: they wanted to protect drug users from the dangers of injection in the back alleys of the Downtown Eastside and to mitigate the harms common to that drug use—virulent infections and the risk of death from overdose.