Ashcroft Appeals Oregon&#39;s Assisted-Suicide Law to Supreme Court
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US Attorney General John Ashcroft Wednesday has asked the US Supreme Court to set aside the nation&#39;s and Oregon&#39;s only assisted-suicide law.
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Excerpts from Monday's arguments before the Supreme Court on a challenge to the three-drug system of lethal injection used on death row inmates in Kentucky and other states:
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People anxious to watch oral arguments in Ashcroft v. Raich started arriving outside the US Supreme Court at 5 am on Monday, Nov. 29.
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Oregon&#39;s one-of-a-kind law allowing doctor-assisted suicide moved toward the ultimate legal test Tuesday when the US Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that upheld the law.
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Since the US Supreme Court decided to stay mum on the Massachusetts high court ruling that permits same-sex marriage, attorneys pushing San Francisco&#39;s anti-discrimination case said Monday they hope a similar hands-off attitude will prevail if they are
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WASHINGTON John Hinckley&#39;s sister appealed to a federal judge in Washington today for longer unsupervised visits by her brother.
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The White House is turning to the Supreme Court for help as the administration fights a challenge to its aggressive promotion of federal financial aid for religious charities
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OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says it&#39;s up to the British Columbia government to decide whether or not to pay for an early childhood treatment for autism.
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Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday that the Bush administration will more than likely appeal a federal court ruling that struck
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Hard cases make bad law, the old adage goes. But in the case of Ashcroft v. Raich, the medical marijuana case recently argued before the US Supreme Court (news - web sites), the opposite
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The principle of states&#39; rights faced a stiff challenge at the US Supreme Court yesterday, as the justices tried to decide whether federal drug laws should trump a California
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Monday by two advocacy groups arguing that dying patients have a constitutional right to access experimental drugs that have not received regulatory approval.
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The White House is turning to the Supreme Court for help as the administration fights a challenge to its aggressive promotion of federal financial aid for religious charities.
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The Bush administration has asked the United States Supreme Court to void Oregon&#39;s Death With Dignity Act. The Act was approved by Oregon voters in 1998, and more than 170 people have since used it to end their lives.
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TALLAHASSEE - A bitter legal battle over whether the husband of a brain-damaged woman should be allowed to remove her feeding tube against the wishes of her parents reached the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear an appeal by Exxon Mobil Corp seeking to overturn the $2.5 billion in punitive damages it must pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.
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WASHINGTON â The Supreme Court on Monday heard starkly different descriptions of Kentuckyâs method of putting people to death, with a lawyer for a condemned prisoner asserting there is an unacceptable risk of agony and a lawyer for the state saying nothing could be further from the truth.