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Jack Kevorkian, whose public championing of the legalization of medical euthanasia has earned him the moniker “Dr. Death,” attacked medical organizations and the Supreme Court in a speech at Harvard Law School yesterday. After being convicted of second-degree murder for assisting terminally ill...
Case: Herring v. United States Hearing Date: Oct. 7 Background: Bennie Dean Herring was arrested in Coffee County, Alabama after trying to pick up his impounded car from his local police station. While he was at the station, the county investigator asked for a check for warrants in Herring's...
Case: Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations Hearing Date: Nov. 4 Background: In 2004, the FCC tightened its policy regarding expletives that had made it on-air during live broadcasts, prohibiting "single uses of vulgar words" where it had previously made allowances for "isolated and fleeting" incidents. The Commission...
Franklin D. Roosevelt-who served from 1933 until his death in 1945-was the first occupant of the Oval Office to serve more than two terms (he was elected to four). Like Bloomberg, Roosevelt-who helped America weather the Great Depression and accepted his nomination to a third term while...
It's unclear whether New York City's term limits law, which was reaffirmed in a 1996 referendum, will ultimately be overhauled-or whether an amendment is even in the popular mayor's best interest. History hasn't been kind to the city's third-term mayors, of whom there...