9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling Effects on the Oregon Assisted Suicide Law; Actor Gary Sinise Heads Effort to Help Iraqi Children; FilmWeek
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling Effects on the Oregon Assisted Suicide Law
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that Attorney General John Ashcroft exceeded his authority when he attempted to block Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. In 2001, the Attorney General ordered that Oregon physicians who dispensed lethal barbiturates under the Death With Dignity law were in violation of a federal narcotics statute. John Eastman, JD, PhD, Professor of Law At Chapman University School of Law specializing in Constitutional Law and Legal History and N. Gregory Hamilton, M.D., a Portland doctor and former president of Physicians for Compassionate Care, join Host Larry Mantle to discuss the issue.
Actor Gary Sinise Heads Effort to Help Iraqi Children
Larry mantle talks with actor Gary Sinise (Forest Gump, Snake Eyes, Ransom) about his acting career and his recent work developing “Operation Iraqi Children,” a grassroots organization he co-founded with author Laura Hillenbrand that combines the efforts of major non-profits and FedEx to send school supplies to Iraqi children. To Operation Iraqi Children.
FilmWeek
Larry Mantle and critics Peter Rainer of New York Magazine and Ella Taylor of the L.A. Weekly discuss this week's new film releases, including The Day After Tomorrow, Raising Helen, Baadasssss!, Saved!, Frankie and Johnny Are Married, The Mother, Springtime in a Small Town, and Bukowski: Born Into This.
Critic Lael Loewenstein of Variety , just back from France, talks about the Cannes Film Festival.