Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides Dean Miller, the faculty group supporting the boycott includes: George H. Williams, professor of Church History; James Luther Adams, professor of Ethics: George Ernest Wright, professor of Old Testament; and James Harry Cotton, professor of Church...
...hospital called in Washington Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, who brought the problem to Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals. After a hearing in the hospital. Judge Wright authorized a transfusion, and the patient recovered. It would almost seem that everyone had won. Mrs. Jones was alive and, since the transfusion was involuntary, no damage had been done to her conscience...
...Jones is a woman of strong principles. In an effort to have Judge Wright's order overturned, she appealed for a hearing by the full, nine-member bench of the Court of Appeals. In varying language the judges agreed that "there is nothing to rehear." Mrs. Jones had left the hospital, Judge Wright's order had expired, the case had become what lawyers call "moot," meaning that a decision would not have any practical consequences. But not one of his colleagues voiced agreement with Judge Wright's original action...
...felt that Wright had exceeded his authority and urged that his order "be expunged so that there would be nothing in our records which could be cited as a precedent." Three others held that the "right to be let alone," enunciated by the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, covers "a great many foolish, unreasonable and even absurd ideas which do not conform, such as refusing medical treatment, even at great risk...
...Judge Wright announced that if he had it to do all over again-he would do it again. In an 18-page opinion, he eloquently defended his transfusion order. If it is unlawful for a parent to abandon a child, he argued, can a judge permit the ultimate abandonment of a child by the mother's voluntary death? If suicide is illegal, can a judge permit a hospital patient to choose death by refusing medical treatment? "I determined to act on the side of life." Mrs. Jones remains unconvinced. At week's end she was talking of taking...