To: jackbill
If this was held up on appeal, and Terri's case was also held up on appeal but with the opposite conclusion, then it is a candidate for Supreme Court review in order to resolve the conflict in the rulings. It's too late for Terri though.
2 posted on
03/31/2005 3:05:00 PM PST by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: FreedomCalls
"then it is a candidate for Supreme Court review in order to resolve the conflict in the rulings."
Not at all. There is no conflict. Florida and Maryland are each sovereign states, and each are entitled to make separate laws so long as they all fall under the powers delegated to the states by the Constitution, and so long as they don't conflict with the 14th Amendment.
The SCOTUS has no more business ruling in these cases than it did in Roe v Wade.
6 posted on
03/31/2005 3:26:15 PM PST by
NJ_gent
(Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
To: FreedomCalls
No necessary reason why the two state judgements have to be brought into harmony nationwide. The law just isn't the same in the two states. Which is quite natural, for two different jurisdictions regulated by two different legislatures.
11 posted on
03/31/2005 3:42:27 PM PST by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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