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Nov. 1st, 2004 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingUS Supreme court back in session.
Interesting included rulings:
Jack Kevorkian will stay in jail as the Supreme Court refuses to hear his appeal.
The Supreme Court will decide whether local governments can be sued for failing to enforce restraining orders, using the case of a Colorado mother whose three daughters were killed by their father.
The Supreme Court handled a similar case in 1989, and ruled that public officials may not be sued when their alleged gross negligence permits a child to be abused by a parent.
The court said then that the government does not have a constitutional duty to protect people, including abused children, who are not in custody.
Interesting included rulings:
Jack Kevorkian will stay in jail as the Supreme Court refuses to hear his appeal.
The Supreme Court will decide whether local governments can be sued for failing to enforce restraining orders, using the case of a Colorado mother whose three daughters were killed by their father.
The Supreme Court handled a similar case in 1989, and ruled that public officials may not be sued when their alleged gross negligence permits a child to be abused by a parent.
The court said then that the government does not have a constitutional duty to protect people, including abused children, who are not in custody.