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HB 701, Artificially Provided Sustenance and Hydration, Florida House of Representatives, March 17, 2005 [bill to block the withholding of food and water from patients in a persistent vegetative state when the patient did not leave specific instructions refusing artificial...
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Pinney, et al. v. Nokia, Inc. et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, March 17, 2005 [ruling that because the claims only raised issues relating to state claims, including consumer protection, they were not preempted by...
Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families, ACLU and associated groups, March 17, 2005 . Excerpt:Federal...
HR 1332, Protection of Incapacitated Persons Act of 2005, passed by the United States House of Representatives on March 17, 2005 [passed in light of the Terri Schiavo case, and allowing a federal judge to decide whether withholding food, fluids,...
South Dakota governor Mike Rounds Thursday signed four bills restricting abortion in the state, further tightening what some consider the nation's toughest laws on abortion . One of the bills requires that doctors inform pregnant women...
US District Judge Patricia Seitz gave her conditional approval Thursday to the proposed $25.5 million settlement between Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust and the US government over a train seized by the US Army in 1945 that...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a written statement Thursday demanding that Syria withdraw all troops from Lebanon prior to that countrys April and May parliamentary elections in order to ensure that the elections are free, fair, and conducted...
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) threatened to remove itself from Guantanamo Bay interrogations due to the abuse of detainees in late 2002, forcing the Pentagon to review interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official...
The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would block the withholding of food and water from patients in a persistent vegetative state when the patient did not leave specific instructions refusing artificial...
Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, Martha Stewart was back in court today to press her appeal to have her conviction overturned. Stewart attorney Walter Dellinger argued her...
