This ruling was also affirmed by the Florida appeals court and denied a hearing by the Florida Supreme Court. When Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the second time, in 2003, the Florida legislature created âTerri's Lawâ to override the court decision, and the tube was again reinserted. This law was subsequently ruled an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.
Liquefaction-Liquefaction is a processes that occurs in water-saturated unconsolidated sediment due to shaking. In areas underlain by such material, the ground shaking causes the grains to loose grain to grain contact, and thus the material tends to flow.
1 Unsaturated soil acts like a sponge, absorbing some of the water from rain or snow melt. 2  Saturated soil by itself does not cause flooding. 3  Usually, heavy rain or rapid snow melt combined with saturated soil causes the flooding. Frozen ground. 2  Frozen soil can not absorb as much water as unfrozen soil. 3  Rain or rapid snow melt atop frozen soil can cause flooding that wouldn't have occurred if the soil were not frozen. 4  Wet or saturated soil. 5  Saturated soil can't absorb rain and water from melting snow.