Court lets Oregon suicide law stand
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SAN FRANCISCO  A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its May decision upholding Oregon&#39;s assisted-suicide law.
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Closing arguments have completed in a trial aimed at overturning a 1998 law aimed at curbing pornography. While proponents of the law saw it is necessary to prevent children from viewing objectionable material, opponents say it hurts free speech.
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An Oregon man accused of using the Internet to try to organize a mass suicide for Valentine's Day was indicted Monday while deputies kept watch over his house to make sure no one arrived to kill themselves.
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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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The widow of a man who had an assisted suicide in Switzerland says people should be able to choose how to die.
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A Georgia man condemned to die received a stay of execution on Thursday in the latest reprieve since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to rule on a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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The case of an Oregon teacher fighting for the right to take a gun to school for protection from her ex-husband.
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The US Supreme Court yesterday let stand a ruling that dismissed a $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA, ending a case that helped feed the reputation of Madison County, Ill., where it originated, as a "judicial hellhole."
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A jury has returned a verdict of suicide on a 14-year-old boy who hanged himself in a privately run secure unit.
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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 ruled on Friday that California's method of execution through lethal injection is unconstitutional but said it could be fixed by changing the procedure.
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The justices decline to rule on a lower court decision that says terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs that have not been thoroughly tested, effectively letting the ruling stand.
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By Joe Gamm, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb.
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Chatroom users who watched a man apparently commit suicide over the internet will not face charges.
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The husband of a severely brain-damaged  woman won a Florida Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that could  allow him to remove his wife's feeding tube and let her die,  against her parents' wishes.
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A court mulls a terminally ill man's request to die in a landmark case which has sparked fierce debate in Italy.
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SALEM, Ore.  - Same-sex couples should enjoy the  same rights and benefits as married heterosexual couples,  advocates told Oregon's Supreme Court on Wednesday, with the  fate of 3,000 married gay couples at issue.