In the 1962 case Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix v. Maricopa County, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Arizona Revised Statute 13-213, which banned the public advertising of contraceptive or abortion [3] medication or services, was constitutional. However, the court also ruled that that Arizona Revised Statute 13-213 did not apply to Planned Parenthood's distribution of contraceptive...

In the 1962 case Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix v. Maricopa County, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Arizona Revised Statute 13-213, which banned the public advertising of contraceptive or abortion [3] medication or services, was constitutional. However, the court also ruled that that Arizona Revised Statute 13-213 did not apply to Planned Parenthood's distribution of contraceptive...

In United States v. Loughner the Ninth Circuit will soon address the constitutionality of involuntarily medicating an incompetent pretrial defendant through a Harper order that could serve to render him competent to stand trial without the added procedural protection of a judicial hearing. Judicial support for applying Harper orders to pretrial defendants is likely to be used to justify Harper ...

The President of the Republic Poland, by virtue Article 122(3) Constitution Poland 2 April 1997, has exclusive competence to initiate preventive control regulations before Constitutional Tribunal aimed at examining their constitutionality. essence this action is seek check those that raise doubts in President's mind as compatibility with Constitution. Legal concerning procedure for removing inc...

Over the past twenty years, neuroscientists have discovered that brain maturation continues through an individual’s midtwenties. The United States Supreme Court cited this research to support its abolition of the juvenile death penalty in Roper v. Simmons. Now the Court is faced with two cases that challenge the constitutionality of sentencing juveniles to life imprisonment without parole. Many...

Ohio law made it a crime for a physician to perform an abortion on an unmarried, unemancipated, minor woman unless one parent is notified or a court authorizes the abortion on the minor's showing that she is sufficiently mature to make the decision herself; that she has been physically, emotionally, or sexually abused by one parent; or that notice is not in her best interests. The plaintiffs, ...

In 1998, Mary Bono, congresswoman and widow of singer/actor/congressman Sonny Bono, implored her colleagues to adopt the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) that bore her departed husband's name and ideological imprimatur. [FN2] Mrs. Bono reported that Mr. Bono had "wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever," [FN3] though the CTEA's drafters modestly aspired to add only twenty yea...

Like all other Canadian legislation, in order to be valid law, the provisions of Bill C-13, An act respecting assisted human reproduction, must be consistent with the terms of Canada’s Constitution, and, in particular, must not unjustifiab ly infringe upon the individual rights and freedoms set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. With this fundamental legal principle in mind, th...