Bee Ruling Case

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The United States Courts are often utilized in a very complex way to settle affairs that have underlined the meaning behind much of the scientific and industrial progress, medical practice, legal system, as well as the ethical and religious thinking. It is here that issues are brought together under one matter. In other words, today the courts are a place where we try and make sense of the undefinable situations; leaving the courts to make undesirable decisions, leading often to legal statutes and precedents. A legal statute is defined as “a written law passed by a legislature on the state or federal level. Statutes set forth general propositions of law that courts apply to specific situations. A statute may forbid a certain act, direct a certain act, make a declaration, or set forth governmental mechanisms to aid society,” (Bouvier, 1856). A precedent is “the decision of courts of justice; when exactly in point with a case before the court, they are generally held to have a binding authority, as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, as because the law in that case has …show more content…
In this subsequent decortication state she was totally dependent on a mechanical respirator for breathing. Nonetheless, the trial court on November 10, 1975, denied the plaintiff's application, siting that Karen was not legally or medically dead. Thus, Mr. Quinlan was denied the right to authorize termination of "life-assisting apparatus" and granted Karen Quinlan's physicians the right to continue medical treatment over the objections of the Quinlan family. This ruling was then overturned on March 31, 1976. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that “Karen's "right of privacy" included a right to refuse medical treatment and that her father, under the circumstances, could assume this right in her stead, (Joseph T. Quinlan v. Guardian Ad Litem Thomas R. Curtin., 1976, slip op. at, p

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