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  2. Bodily integrity - Wikipedia

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    Shimp (1978), a Pennsylvania court ruled that a person cannot be forced to donate bone marrow, even if such a donation would save another person's life. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) on June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has also protected the right of governmental entities to infringe upon bodily integrity under certain ...

  3. X Case - Wikipedia

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    Court membership; Judges sitting: Thomas Finlay, Niall McCarthy, Hugh O'Flaherty, Séamus Egan, Anthony Hederman: Case opinions; Under Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution, termination of pregnancy is only permissible where there is a "real and substantial risk to the life of the mother", including a real and substantial risk of suicide.

  4. Ferdinand Marcos - Wikipedia

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    Marcos appealed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. [90] Justice Jose P. Laurel, who wrote the majority decision, had almost killed a rival during a youthful brawl. He was convicted by a trial court of frustrated murder, but was acquitted after his own appeal to the Supreme Court. Laurel pleaded for his colleagues to acquit. [86]

  5. Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The United States began changing its nomenclature from "the Philippine Islands" to "the Philippines" in the Philippine Autonomy Act and the Jones Law. [22] The official title "Republic of the Philippines" was included in the 1935 constitution as the name of the future independent state, [ 23 ] and in all succeeding constitutional revisions.

  6. William Howard Taft - Wikipedia

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    Taft believed an appeal should usually be settled by the circuit court, with only cases of major import decided by the justices. He and other Supreme Court members proposed legislation to make most of the Court's docket discretionary, with a case getting full consideration by the justices only if they granted a writ of certiorari. To Taft's ...

  7. Thirty-first Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    On 18 October 2013, judge Paul McDermott rejected the petition, ruling that Jordan had failed to prove the government's advocacy had "materially affected" the referendum result. [28] [29] McDermott ordered a two-week stay on the delivery of the final referendum certificate, to give Jordan an opportunity to appeal his decision to the Supreme Court.

  8. C Case - Wikipedia

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    On 21 November 1997, the District Court made an order that C could leave the state. [1] The parents challenged this order in the High Court. Judge Hugh Geoghegan upheld the original order, allowing the EHB to bring her to the UK for an abortion. [1] [2] The court relied on the judgment in the X Case and on the Thirteenth Amendment.

  9. Abortion in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    With the complex, lengthy and sensitive debate surrounding the issue, the Court made its ruling that state authorities were better suited than an international judge to balance the competing views and rights in abortion regulation. [48] The Court's decision is binding on Ireland and all of the member states of the Council of Europe. [49]