The standard front-wheel-drive, four-cylinder Highlander makes a superb wagon for the city and suburbs, especially now that traction control and stability control are standard equipment.

The 350Z is available as a hatchback coupe and a convertible. The coupe comes in base, Enthusiast, Performance, Touring, Track, and 35th Anniversary Edition.

The best value, most sensible and most popular model is the Lancer ES, a pleasant sedan with a smooth ride, good handling, and a comfortable, nicely trimmed interior.

Celica offers a 140-hp GT model with standard 5-speed manual transmission and a 180-hp GT-S with 6-speed manual.

The Jetta

For the 2005 model year, the Focus received a minor styling makeover, inside and out, giving it a slightly more subdued, mature look.

And Tim, I agree COunt 8 is very problematic. Assuming that what Congress did was constitutional, it seems to me that the federal court would be obliged to start a whole new trial and disregard any of the judgments of the state courts. It makes me wonder why the parents didn’t raise this on their first complaint, since I think all of their previous causes of action have been meritless.

Can federal courts do that? I don’t think federal courts can second guess how a state court has interpreted a state law, can it?

The save-Terri forces run out of options.

As your post says, though, there seems not to be a federal standard. The federal court could say that as far as the 14th Amendment right to life goes, killing Terri Schiavo just needs a preponderance of evidence, or maybe that she can be killed so long as there is not clear and convincing evidence that she did *not* want to be killed, or they could require proof of her desire to die “beyond a reasonable doubt”.

It seems to me that one could plead a colorable substantive due process claim under these circumstances, but the “Cruzan claim” is not it. One could argue, for example, that the Due Process Clause NEVER permits an incompetent person to be deprived of food and water, or that it never permits that absent written evidence of their intent, or that it never permits that absent total consensus from all close relatives, etc.

All of these hypothetical claims are invitations to “judicial activism” to some degree, asking the courts to draft a better right-to-die statute than the Florida Legislature. But since the Schindler’s goal at this point is simply to get in the courthosue door with a colorable claim, it seems like something along these lines would have been their best shot.

The en banc Eleventh Circuit has declined to review last night’s panel decision in the Schiavo case by a vote of 10-2, meaning that the next stage is to file a petit…

SCOTUSblog has the details, Further Updates on Schiavo Case — CTA11 Decision and Amended Complaint, Meanwhile, back in the district court, the parents have filed an amended complaint in which they have added claims under the Americans with Disabi…

SCOTUSblog has the detaisl, Further Updates on Schiavo Case — CTA11 Decision and Amended Complaint, Meanwhile, back in the district court, the parents have filed an amended complaint in which they have added claims under the Americans with Disabi…