Word: courting
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WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court, embarking on a term laced with controversial issues, said yesterday it will decide whether police nationwide may use sobriety checkpoints in trying to curb drunken drivers...
...case accepted by the court, which poses the question of whether police officers may use checkpoints to spot drunken drivers, presents the latest test of strength for the Court's newly solidified conservative majority...
...usual start-of-term flurry, the Court issued orders in more than 1000 cases--denying review to most and agreeing to study 22. They will be among 150 or so disputes to be decided by the end of the term in July...
...beyond the day-to-day business of the nation's highest court, the nine justices are looking ahead to a term in which they have agreed to decide thorny right-of-privacy arguments in three abortion disputes and their first "right-to-die" controversy...
Last week in Maryville, Tennessee Circuit Court Judge W. Dale Young announced his decision in the unprecedented case: the embryos are people, not property, and should go to the mother. In an opinion loaded with some of the coded language that often surrounds abortion controversies, Young ruled that "human life begins at conception." The lawsuit ought to be decided as a question of custody, he concluded, and "it is to the manifest best interests of the child or children, in vitro that they be available for implantation." Questions of final custody, child support and visitation rights will be decided later...