Temporary Detention Order, Evaluation, and 'Imminent Danger'
Ruling
IN
RE: CHO SEUNG-HUI
(December 13-15, 2005) - The
temporary detention order of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui
filed by Virginia Tech police on December 13, 2005, with a
corresponding mental health evaluation. The following day, Virginia
Special Justice Paul Barnett certified in an order that Heung-Sui
"[p]resents an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental
illness," and directed that as a court-ordered out-patient he
"follow all recommended treatments." Read
more...
Supreme Court Upholds Federal Abortion Ban Law in 5-4
Ruling
GONZALES V.
CARHART
(U.S. Supreme Court, April 18, 2007) - In a
challenge to the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act which
proscribes a particular method of ending fetal life in the later
stages of pregnancy, judgments enjoining enforcement of the Act are
reversed as respondents failed to show that the Act, as a facial
matter, is void for vagueness, or that it imposes an undue burden on
a woman's right to have an abortion. Read
more...
Related Resources
• Partial
Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
• Case
Docket
• Paul D.
Clement, Solicitor General for the Attorney General
• Priscilla
J. Smith, for Respondents Carhart, et al.
