Tag: Supreme Court

As "Roe v. Wade" turns 40, most oppose reversing abortion ruling

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NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire volunteer Gail Laker-Phelps and NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire Campaign Director Melissa Bernardin put address labels mailers which read, "Do you want politicians in your bedroom?" in Concord(Reuters) – Most Americans remain opposed to overturning the controversial Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which 40 years ago legalized abortion at least in the first three months of pregnancy, according to a poll released Wednesday. The poll by the Pew Research Center found that 63 percent of Americans believe that Roe v. Wade should not be completely overturned, compared to 29 percent who believe it should be. These opinions have changed little from surveys conducted in 2003 and 1992, Pew reported. …

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Venezuela’s Maduro to visit Chavez again in Cuba

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Venezuelan Vice President Maduro speaks during a rally in support of President Chavez in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro will fly to Cuba on Friday to visit cancer-stricken Hugo Chavez, a month after the socialist leader underwent his fourth operation in 18 months. The 58-year-old president has neither been seen nor heard from since the surgery, and he has suffered multiple post-operative complications including a severe lung infection. He missed his own inauguration on Thursday, but the Supreme Court said he could be sworn in later – in theory meaning he could remain in office for weeks or months from a Havana hospital. …

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Supreme Court to review free speech of HIV/AIDS groups

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File of demonstrators marching at a rally during the United Nations' High Level Meeting on HIV & AIDS at the UN headquarters in New York(Reuters) – The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the government can require groups that receive federal funding for overseas HIV/AIDS programs to have explicit policies that oppose prostitution and sex trafficking. The case is one of six that the court on Friday agreed to hear in its current term, with oral arguments most likely in April. Among the other cases is one examining the reach of the court's landmark 1966 Miranda v. Arizona decision on the right to remain silent when questioned by the police. …

U.S. high court won’t review federal embryonic stem cell funds

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(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a challenge to federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research brought by two researchers who said the U.S. National Institutes of Health rules on such studies violate federal law. The decision brings an end to a lawsuit that had threatened to hamper stem cell research after a district court judge blocked the taxpayer funding in 2010. But some observers expected the Supreme Court would decline the take the case after an appeals court ruled that the funding could continue. U.S. …

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Supreme Court won’t hear challenge over PAC disclosures

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan walks back into the Supreme Court building with Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts after her investiture ceremony in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a challenge to federal regulators' method for determining which political groups need to register as political action committees and reveal their donors. Without comment, the court declined to hear the appeal of The Real Truth About Abortion, an anti-abortion group that had sued in 2008 to challenge numerous Federal Election Commission rules that govern disclosures of political spending. The case is one of several challenging the disclosure and reporting requirements for political groups in the wake of Citizens United v. …

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Supreme Court: abortion protester may deserve lawyer fees

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday said anti-abortion protesters may be entitled to recover attorneys’ fees from a South Carolina sheriff’s office that had stopped them from displaying graphic signs showing aborted fetuses at demonstrations. In its first decision since the 2012-2013 term officially began last month, the court reversed a ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against Steven Lefemine and Columbia Christians for Life, which had sought to recover the fees. …

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Canada court says not revealing HIV not always a crime

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(Reuters) – Canada’s top court said on Friday that failing to tell a sexual partner you have HIV is only sexual assault if there is “a realistic possibility” of transmitting the virus that causes AIDS. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the government’s argument that everyone who has HIV should be required to disclose that condition to all sexual partners in any circumstance. …

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Arkansas conservative group seeks to block medical pot vote

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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) – A conservative Arkansas group seeking to prevent the state from becoming the first in the U.S. South to allow medical marijuana filed a lawsuit on Friday to knock a pot-as-medicine proposal off the November election ballot. The lawsuit filed in the state Supreme Court by the Coalition to Preserve Arkansas Values argues the ballot’s title, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, is misleading and the act itself hard to understand at 8,000 words long. …

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