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8 pages in length. Within the past several years, the Supreme Court has had to grapple with many controversial issues and decide accordingly the best way to appease both the law and the public. A number of such issues have represented the changing times where individuals are routinely forced to seek legal guidance from the nation's highest court. The writer discusses doctor-assisted
suicide, medicinal/religious marijuana and the Family Medical Leave Act as they relate to Supreme Court rulings. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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law and the public. A number of such issues have represented the ever-changing times where individuals are routinely forced to seek legal guidance from the nations highest court as
a means by which to come to agreement. I. DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE The Supreme Courts decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide within the boundaries of the law was monumental
and unprecedented. The widely awaited decision allowing individual states to conclude for themselves whether to permit doctor-assisted suicides - spurred on by such recent cases as Vacco v. Quill2,
challenging New Yorks assisted suicide ban; and Washington v. Glucksberg3 that challenged Washingtons law barring assisted suicide (Coleson PG) -- represented a much-needed bend in the ever-stringent law that did
not allow for an individual to dictate his or her own mortality. Chief Justice Rehnquist said the court has long recognized the difference between "letting a patient die and
making that patient die" (Blake PG), and he was not willing to create an entirely separate distinction for the law books. Instead, he opted to have each of the
fifty states exercise their own discretion with regard to doctor-assisted suicide, effectively keeping the high law at arms length in this particularly controversial issue.
This single, historic decision brought forth a great many opportunities for each state to recognize the importance of allowing people to die with dignity. The Supreme Court decision
truly opened doors that up until now have been locked tight. With Dr. Jack Kevorkian - the doctor who frequently assists terminally ill patients with their own suicide -
at the forefront of this hotly debated issue; this marked a possible reprieve for the many people suffering with a terminal illness. Having ruled that there exists no constitutional
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