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UPHELD. OREGON'S DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT, by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; in San Francisco. The endorsement of the U.S.'s only assisted-suicide law, which lets doctors prescribe lethal drugs to terminal patients requesting them, was a rebuke to Attorney General John Ashcroft, who tried to block...
Meanwhile, FAIR—bolstered by friend-of-the-court briefs from Harvard Law School professors and the student gay rights group Lambda—has appealed Lifland’s decision to the Third Circuit Court in Philadelphia...
...January, FAIR’s lawyers told The Crimson that a three-judge panel from the Third Circuit would hear oral arguments on the appeal in mid-March, but the Court has yet to take up the case. FAIR President Kent Greenfield, a law professor at Boston College, wrote in an e-mail last week that the Philadelphia-based court will likely hear arguments in the suit next month...
...billed as the first legal gay marriages in the U.S. But the stories won't be totally accurate: gay couples have already legally wed in the U.S., here in Oregon. In a little noticed decision last month, overshadowed by the news from Massachusetts (not to mention Iraq), Oregon Circuit Court Judge Frank Bearden ruled for the first time in U.S. history that a state must "accept and register" marriages of same-sex couples. In March and April, Multnomah County issued marriage licenses to 3,022 gay couples, some of whom sued after the state then refused to recognize those marriages...
...Padilla is closely related to another case currently before the Court: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which concerns a U.S. citizen, Yaser Hamdi, captured in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban. The issue at stake is whether the president can hold him indefinitely as a battlefield detainee. Richmond’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed this right as a constitutional war power...