Rehearing on suicide ruling is rejected
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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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A weight loss drug used by thousands of Britons has been rejected by US safety officials because of an increased risk of 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 federal appeals court has denied a request for a rehearing from a freelance video journalist and blogger who has been jailed for three months for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigation.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Gov. Jeb Bush to reconsider its decision striking down a state law designed to save the life of a severely brain-damaged woman.
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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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WASHINGTON - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian lost a Supreme Court appeal on Monday in his bid to win freedom after five years in prison.
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John Lennon&#39;s killer, Mark David Chapman, has been denied parole for the third time. In explaining their decision to Chapman on Tuesday, the New York State Division of Parole wrote that it &quot;was based
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The judge in Phil Spector's murder trial rejected an attempt by his lawyers to introduce writings by the woman he is accused of killing about living in a home where an actress committed suicide in the 1930s.
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HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday turned down the euthanasia plea made by the mother of chess player, Venkatesh on the ground that the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1995 is devoid of such a provision.
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday  refused to reconsider its ruling that allowed the U.S.  government to move forward with its death penalty case against  accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
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The Florida Supreme Court rejected a request by Governor Jeb Bush to reconsider its decision to strike down a law aimed at keeping a severely brain-damaged woman alive through a feeding tube.
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A court rejects a terminally ill man's request to die in a landmark case which has sparked fierce debate in Italy.
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An Indian court's refusal to allow a terminally-ill patient to donate his organs triggers a legal debate.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - A California judge denied  a bid by lawyers for Scott Peterson on Monday to move his case  and pick a new jury to decide whether the fertilizer salesman  should be executed for murdering his wife and unborn son.
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to review a ruling that terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs Â even if that means the patient will likely die before the medicine is approved.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Florida's Supreme Court  refused on Thursday to reconsider its ruling overturning a  state law that let Florida Gov. Jeb Bush keep a severely  brain-damaged woman on life support against the wishes of her  husband and legal guardian.