Justices Wonât Hear Appeal on Drugs for Terminally Ill
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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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The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge to lethal injections that has halted executions for months.
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Description: Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist does not return to court as planned, saying he continues to receive treatment for thyroid cancer.
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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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The Supreme Court declined once again yesterday to decide whether a lengthy delay in carrying out a death sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, this time in the case of an Arizona man who murdered two teenage girls.
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Chief Justice William Rehnquist was unable to preside over the Supreme Court yesterday as planned, and specialists said his treatment indicates he has a particularly virulent, usually fatal form of thyroid cancer.
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The Supreme Court appeared hesitant Monday to endorse medical marijuana for patients who have a doctorÂ´s recommendation. Justices are considering whether sick people in 11 states
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Florida&#39;s Supreme Court declined today a request by Gov. Jeb Bush to reconsider its ruling against a state law designed to keep a severely brain-damaged woman alive
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WASHINGTON -- Liberal and conservative Supreme Court justices expressed doubt Monday that sick patients should be allowed to use doctor-recommended marijuana to relieve pain.
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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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The Bush administration has appealed to US Supreme Court in an effort to block an Oregon law allowing doctors to help the terminally ill end their lives.
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Terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to gain access to experimental drugs that have yet to win federal approval, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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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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WASHINGTON - A lawyer for two women who use marijuana as a painkiller told the US Supreme Court yesterday that the federal government has no constitutional authority to outlaw the cultivation of the drug within a state for medical use.
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Several US Supreme Court justices expressed reservations Monday about allowing medical marijuana for sick patients whose doctors have recommended they smoke it for pain.
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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 Supreme Court returned to work Monday to hear pleas from death-row inmates to force states to use different drugs or tighten their procedures to reduce the risk that prisoners will suffer excruciating pain during their executions.