Court strikes down Terri&#39;s law
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Severely brain damaged, Terri Schiavo lies in a Clearwater nursing home unaware of the legal tug of war over her life. And on Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court wrote another chapter in this long-running right-to-die case.
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A federal judge struck down a key part of the USA Patriot Act on Thursday in a ruling that defended the need for judicial oversight of laws and bashed Congress for passing a law that makes possible "far-reaching invasions of liberty."
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Ukraine&#39;s Constitutional Court yesterday overturned a new amendment to the country&#39;s election laws that had been intended to minimize the chances for fraud, but it dismissed
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The law that kept Terri Schiavo alive the past 11 months has been struck down by The Florida Supreme Court. Terri Schiavo has been on life support since she suffered a heart attack in 1990, which left her with severe brain damage.
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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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Detaining foreigners without trial under emergency anti-terror laws breaks European human rights laws, law lords ruled today. The decision from nine of the law lords, who make up Britain&#39;s highest court, throws
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Canada's Supreme Court struck down the government's right to detain foreign terrorism suspects indefinitely and without trial, ruling Friday that the system violates the country's bill of rights.
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A U.S. district judge struck down the section of the act that requires telephone and ISPs to turn over records to the government without telling customers.
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In a divided ruling, justices strike down portions of federal guidelines, forcing a redrawing of the sentencing system.
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to reinstate a Florida law passed to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked to a feeding tube, clearing the way for it to be removed.
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A federal court yesterday struck down as unconstitutional a path-breaking Pennsylvania law designed to prevent Internet users from seeing Web sites that contain child pornography.
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In a major criminal law decision, a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federal judges no longer must follow the long-criticized sentencing guidelines in effect since 1987.
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A federal judge dismissed yesterday a challenge from Osama bin Laden's driver over his more than four years of detention at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, saying a new anti-terrorism law approved by Congress this fall removes the lower court's jurisdiction in the matter.
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The House yesterday voted to strip federal courts of the authority to hear cases challenging the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday invalidated parts of Maine's law barring Internet tobacco sales to minors.
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Chicago Tribune - The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to consider Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's appeal over the so-called Terri's Law, leaving the fate of the severely brain-damaged woman for whom the measure was enacted with state courts that have repeatedly ruled she should be allowed to die.
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Bill would strip federal courts of right to hear cases about the wording, including &#39;under God.&#39;. WASHINGTON -- The US House voted Thursday to strip the Supreme Court and lower federal courts of their power