Court stays out of abortion records case
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The Kansas Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene on behalf of two abortion clinics in a dispute with the state attorney general over patient records that were leaked to "The O'Reilly Factor."
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider whether a Colorado couple must return their adopted son to his Missouri birth mother.
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A federal judge ruled on Thursday that  the government's ban on a procedure opponents call partial  birth abortion was unconstitutional because it failed to  provide an exception to protect a mother's health.
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Kerry said he would not appoint judges who would overturn the Supreme Court&#39;s 1973 abortion rights decision of Roe v. Wade. Bush said he had no litmus test for judges and reiterated his support for the ban on so-called partial birth abortion.
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A doctor has no duty to tell a woman considering an abortion that her embryo is an "existing human being," a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, averting a trial over when human life begins.
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The Supreme Court has denied a challenge to the federal Do Not Call List. Telemarketing companies had filed an appeal, saying the registry violated First Amendment rights because some groups were exempt from the rules.
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The presumptive incoming chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee denied on Thursday that he had issued a warning to President Bush not to nominate anti-abortion judges for the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe.
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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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The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a case that ruled that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to try drugs that have not received federal approval.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - A federal court on Wednesday  ruled that an abortion law signed by President Bush last year  was unconstitutional and banned the U.S. Justice Department  from enforcing it, joining two other states that struck down  the law.
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The state Supreme Court was asked Wednesday to decide if prosecutors violated Rush Limbaugh's privacy rights when they seized his medical records without warning during an investigation into his use of painkillers.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida judge Tuesday refused to remove from the November ballot a proposed constitutional amendment paving the way for mandatory notification of parents when their minor daughters seek abortions.
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The Supreme Court today declined to consider whether dying patients have a right to be treated with experimental drugs not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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The chief justice of the state Supreme Court refused Wednesday to remove himself from a case challenging the results of the presidential election.
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to revive a libel lawsuit filed against two Philadelphia newspapers by a critic of violent rap lyrics.
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Charges were dropped Wednesday against a woman accused of killing her newborn child in 2004 and keeping other sets of fetal remains around her home.