High Court Asked to Block Ore. Assisted Suicide Law
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation's only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge to lethal injections that has halted executions for months.
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TAMPA, Fla. - After being dealt a blow by the Florida Supreme Court, the family of a brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die case still has several legal options as they try to save her life, their attorney said Friday.
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Before resigning from his post as attorney general, John Ashcroft asked the US Supreme Court to set aside Oregonâs assisted suicide law, the only one of its kind in the nation.
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The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from abortion opponents in Southern California who were ordered to pay legal fees to Planned Parenthood after they unsuccessfully sued the family-planning group to require it to declare a link between
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A federal appeals court has rejected the Bush administration&#39;s request for a new hearing on Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s attempt to shut down Oregon&#39;s assisted-suicide law by punishing doctors who prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation&#39;s only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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DUNCAN, B.C. (CP) - A two-page publication ban signed by a B.C. Supreme Court justice was taped to the doors of a courtroom Monday where a Victoria woman is facing charges of helping two women commit suicide.
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Piergiorgio Welby is paralysed and speaks through a computer An Italian judge has rejected a request by a terminally ill man to have doctors switch off his life support machine.Comment
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A man trying to carry out what he claims are his wife's wishes in a long-running right-to-die case asked two courts Tuesday to stop delaying the removal of a feeding tube that helps keep the woman alive.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on  Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his authority  to stop a Tampa man from removing the feeding tube that has  kept his brain-damaged wife alive for nearly 15 years.
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A month after the US Supreme Court agreed to wade into the lethal injection debate, executions are effectively on hold across the nation as courts and politicians sit tight amid a legal limbo.
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The Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on lethal injections that could cause us to rethink our haphazard system of capital punishment
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AN Italian court has overnight rejected a request by a paralysed, terminally ill man who wants doctors to take him off life support in a case that has split the predominantly Catholic country, where euthanasia ...Comment
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Seeking to void the nation&#39;s only right-to-die law, outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the Supreme Court yesterday to give federal agents
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The Florida Supreme Court struck down a  hastily enacted law on Thursday that let the governor keep a  severely brain-damaged woman on life support against the wishes  of her husband and legal guardian.
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A 30-year-old terminally-ill British woman launched a legal bid to force her doctors to let her die, in the latest battle against the law banning euthanasia.