Judge Rules Against 'Choose Life' Plates
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A federal judge ruled Friday that the state's "Choose Life" license plate is unconstitutional based on the reasoning in similar cases in other states, but he declined to rule on whether Tennessee's entire specialty plate program is flawed.
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A federal judge Thursday ordered a suburban Atlanta school system to remove stickers in its high school biology textbooks that call evolution "a theory, not a fact," saying the disclaimers were an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.
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An infant with an often-lethal skeletal disorder can be removed from life support against his mother's wishes, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Lawyers fighting a court challenge of evolution disclaimers on textbooks told a federal judge in final arguments Friday that the goal was tolerance.
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FLORIDA - The Florida Supreme Court has rejected efforts to keep Terri Schiavo alive by feeding tube. The woman who doctors say has been in a persistent vegetative state for 14 years.
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NEW YORK - In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.    U.S...
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License plates proclaiming "Choose Life" are causing Tennessee and a dozen other states to rethink very popular &#151; and very profitable &#151; programs that let drivers promote just about anything from the Girl Scouts to the preservation of wild turkeys.
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A public school board in Georgia  violated the U.S. Constitution when it placed stickers that  challenge the theory of evolution on biology textbooks two  years ago, a lawyer for a group of parents said on Friday.
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By Julia Reynolds, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 13--Juries are prejudiced by seeing defendants wearing prison garb and shackles, the Sixth District Court of Appeals said Tuesday in its reversal of a 26-year sentence handed down in Monterey County Superior Court.
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Judge says law violates free speech, orders blocking stopped.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A former handyman from North Providence who won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a malfunctioning penile implant may not get the money after a judge dismissed his claim. Superior Court Judge Edward C.
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The husband of a severely brain-damaged woman won a Florida Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that could allow him to remove his wife&#39;s feeding tube and let her die, against her parents&#39; wishes.
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Florida Supreme Court has struck down a law that blocked Terri Schiavo&#39;s husband from removing the brain-damaged woman&#39;s feeding tube.
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Florida's Supreme Court struck down a  state law on Thursday that let the governor order a severely  brain-damaged woman's feeding tube be reinserted against her  husband's wishes to let her die.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - An Arkansas circuit judge on  Wednesday threw out the state's ban against foster parenthood  by gay couples or by households that include a gay adult.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, which has been closely split on religious issues, announced yesterday that it will decide whether a government display of the Ten Commandments at public buildings violates the First Amendment&#39;s ban on &#39;&#39;an establishment of
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A federal judge on Thursday ruled against the government&#39;s ban on so-called partial birth abortions, saying the measure was unconstitutional because it failed to provide an exception to protect a mother&#39;s health.