Veterans Administration officials' denial of a Dallas family's request to have a confessed killer buried in a national cemetery in Texas has elicited angry reactions. Radio talk shows, Internet sites and letters to local newspapers have revealed opposition to what one called "complete insensitivity" and another termed "a lack of fairness: look at how many felons already are in U.S. cemeteries.
I n January, the Obama administration hit Catholic employers with arguably the most religiously-oppressive government directive in modern American history: Provide free abortion drugs and birth control pills in your health insurance plans, in flagrant violation of your religious beliefs, or face legal punishment. This week the bishops of the Catholic Church hit back. In one of the largest legal actions to defend religious liberty in U.S. history, Catholic organizations filed a dozen lawsuits across the country claiming the Obama Health and Human Services Department rule violates the right to religious freedom set forth in the U.S. Constitution. These historic lawsuits are certain to play in the upcoming presidential election, and not to President Obama's favor. The plaintiffs include No...
Cemeteries that are located on private property meet two ancient, powerful ideas: the right of property owners to exclude and the veneration of age and of ancestors. That conflict between the right to worship at your ancestors' graves and the right to exclude appears with increasing frequency these days, as landowners seek to develop land where cemeteries are located and descendants of people buried in the cemeteries seek to reclaim something of their heritage. This Essay explores in depth one ancient right associated with graveyards: the right to access graves of ancestors, even if they are on private property. The right of access and the right to further burial offer important insight into the nature of property rights. The exercise of the ancient right of the graveyard also offers th...
...Vermont has a similar statute.52. A Texas statute provides a similar right of access across ...
All seemed to be well for SB 747, until Sen. [Robert Deuell] (R-Greenville), a doctor and former rock-and-roll drummer, entered with an amendment. The original bill, in accordance with federal law, stipulates that abortions would not be funded with tax dollars. But Deuell's amendment prevents these newly eligible women from receiving any services from health care providers that "perform or promote elective abortion," or "contract or affiliate with entities" that do. Sometimes you can dig into a grave and take gold out of the corpse's teeth," Jim Lovett, Red River County district judge, recently told the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. His ghost stories were meant to persuade the panel to pass HB 1012, which would make desecrating either a grave or a corpse a state jail felony, ...
... the weedy or well-cut lawns of old cemeteries to disturb the eternal rest of residents. And from...
We've been in communication with attorneys for the family and made efforts to contact the family when this was first discovered," said W. Christopher Scheaper an attorney far Carriage Services. "We have proposed to have the remains of Mrs. Jackson interred in a mausoleum or other location at the site on a temporary basis. At this point we know there is a vault in the spot where she is suppose to be interred but have not confirmed, whether or not there's a casket and body inside, therefore we would need the proper authorization to open that vault, which is being sought." City of Fort Lauderdale officials didn't return repeated phone calls and it remains unclear as to when the vault was placed in the plot reserved for Mrs. Jackson, or if the city has maintained any records pre-dating it...
... unknown origins to operate its three cemeteries in the early 1990's. The city contracted with Tex...
... dealing with the protection of cemeteries. Section 711.001(2) defines a "cemetery" as "a pla...
... Many of the individual cemeteries within the system are steeped in history and the m... in two markets, Los Angeles and Waco, Texas to see if we can get people interested in this -- ...
...Texas and Louisiana both are continuing to respond, and ... is that, in Orange, Texas, one of the cemeteries there was flooded. And much like we saw in Katrin...
SAN MARCOS, Texas - This five-acre Hill Country farm isn't for harvesting crops, and it's not for raising animals. It's for bodies - dead bodies - and the Texas State University criminal justice students who use them to help solve cold cases. These "CSI"-style cemeteries, where scientists study donated human corpses as they decompose, have been untenable in all but a few states - the result of uneasy neighbors and an obvious "yuck" factor.
The Mid-South looks a little like Holland every spring when tulips pop up in public and private gardens. The irresistible brightly colored flowers seem to shout, "Winter's over; spring is here.
... Bulb Co., is propagating and selling "Texas Tulips" that need no chilling to return year after... vacant lots, abandoned properties and cemeteries. He digs them up, only after getting permission fr...
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