Word: request
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Defense attorney Klieman also questioned the judge's rejection of her request to poll the jury members, a practice sometimes used to ensure that a verdict correctly reflects the views of the jurors. "The fact that the jurors were weeping," she said, "shows every single reason they should have been polled...
...unsuccessful Palestinian raid on Israel's coast. Secretary of State James Baker, who has given Europeans the impression that he opposed the cutoff, has privately asked the British to act as a link between the U.S. and the P.L.O. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has agreed to Baker's request, and will soon visit the Middle East, where he is expected to meet with Yasser Arafat. The P.L.O. leader has accepted the Baker approach...
...think it is fair to say. For example, in one of the early opinions I wrote, the question was whether or not wiretaps could be conducted without a warrant at the request of the President. I wrote the opinion that held it was appropriate to require a warrant. But when I was practicing law, I made a speech indicating that the President ought to have the right to wiretap without a warrant. When you put on the black robe, the experience is sobering. It makes you more thoughtful...
...unlikely that the President will take another look at the FMLA. In fact--and this may be the most disturbing fact of them all--Bush has refused to meet with any of the bill's supporters to discuss his reasoning. More than 20 Republican congresspeople last week requested a meeting with him. He declined. A group of leaders from the FMLA Coalition issued a similar request. Again, he declined. And more than 30 workers from around the country who have lost their jobs because they took time off for a family emergency, similarly requested a meeting. Once again, Bush said...
...some right-to-die advocates called him "a brave pioneer," doctors , and ethicists challenged Kevorkian on both moral and procedural grounds. Even groups that sponsor "death with dignity" legislation are careful to include safeguards to prevent the laws from being abused. Most require that patients make a witnessed, legal request in writing, with two independent doctors confirming that the patient's condition is unbearable and irreversible. Says Susan M. Wolf of the Hastings Center: "Even the staunchest proponents of physician-assisted suicide should be horrified at this case because there were no procedural protections...