Matters of timing: courts seek to sort out confusion over limitations periods in education act

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The US Courts of Appeal for the 3rd and 7th Circuits have narrowed interpretation of the limitations period for initiating challenges to state agencies over the educational needs of disabled students. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act does not specify a limitations period, so courts must borrow a period from an analogous state, or sometimes federal, statute. The 7th Circuit Court in Dell v. Board of Education found that the parents delayed a challenge by one day more than the 120-day period allowed. A somewhat different conclusion on a similar issue was reached by the 3d Circuit in Bernardsville Board of Education v. J.H.

Education, Disabled children, Limitation of actions, Statute of limitations

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Matters of life and death; debate grows over euthanasia

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There is a consensus between physicians, lawyers and bioethicists that the terminally ill have a right to refuse treatment and a right to death with dignity. Groups in some states are trying to gain support for policies supporting physician-aided suicide for the terminally ill. California is a case in point, where the Americans Against Human Suffering have drafted the California Death with Dignity Act. If this measure is approved by the voters in Nov 1992, California would become the first jurisdiction with a statute permitting euthanasia.

Right to refuse treatment, Right to die, Treatment refusal

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Time out for executions: ABA action at the midyear meeting is expected to stir renewed debate on the death penalty

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The ABA's call for a nationwide moratorium on capital punishment may add fuel to the national debate over executions. The death penalty moratorium was proposed by the ABA's House of Delegates at the Feb 1997 Midyear Meeting. The ABA membership has differing positions on executions, and the moratorium call is a way to criticize the practice without totally opposing it.

Social policy, Political aspects, Capital punishment, A.B.A. House of Delegates

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