Good morning . . .
The Supreme Court begins the second half of its term with a laundry list of issues and without Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. The ailing jurist will miss the first two weeks of the session, buit will continue to work from his Virginia home.
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The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to its 1973 landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade.
The Court declined without comment to hear the appeal from Norma McCorvey the woman once known as 'Jane Roe.' It was McCorvey complaint against the Texas abortion law that brought the original case to the Court.
For now, the Court has dodged a highly politically charged debate.
Yahoo! News - Court Rejects Challenge to Abortion Ruling
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The Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal of a National Park Service policy. The policy asks visitors to avoid walking near Utah's Rainbow Bridge out of respect for native American religion.
The policy was challeneged on the grounds that it unconstitutionally endorsed religion.
The Court let stand a lower court dismissal of the suit.
Yahoo! News - Court Won't Review Utah Park Policy Case
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The Supreme Court also declined to review whether the poarents of a student killed at Columbine High Schoiol can back out of a settlement with the parents of the gunmen.
Without comment, the justice let stand a lower court ruling that rejected Michael and Vonda Shoels' claim that they accepted the settlement because of a mistake by their attorney.
Yahoo! News - High Court Won't Hear Columbine Dispute
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The Supreme Court said today that it will hear a Bush admimnistration appeal on the nation's only assisted suicide law.
Justices will review a lower court ruling that says the US government cannot snaction or hold doctors criminally liable for prescribing overdoses under Oregon's voter-approved Death With Diginity Act.
Since it passage in 1998, about 170 people have used the law to end their lives.
Yahoo! News - High Court to Review Assisted Suicide Law
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More in the Afternoon Update.
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