Past Cases – Page 4 – Compassion & Choices

Blick v. Connecticut

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Doctors Gary Blick and Ronald Levine are physicians in Connecticut who desired to provide medical aid in dying to their terminally ill, mentally competent patients who had requested it. Unfortunately,…

Baxter v. Montana

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Compassion & Choices was instrumental in establishing Montana as the first state to authorize medical aid in dying through a court challenge. Robert Baxter and Steven Stoelb were two terminally…

Sampson v. Alaska

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Kevin Sampson was an accountant who was diagnosed with HIV in 1985, which progressed into AIDS in 1992. After six short years, in 1998, Kevin was informed that his condition…

Stanley v. City of New York

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At a Glance: In Stanley v. City of New York, Compassion & Choices submitted an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the State of New York (in New York the…

Morris v. Bradenburg

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Dr. Katherine Morris, Dr. Aroop Mangalik, and Aja Riggs (“Plaintiffs-Petitioners”) asked the District Court of Bernalillo County, New Mexico to find that medical aid in dying was not illegal in…

Greenberg v. Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

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At a Glance: Compassion & Choices submitted an amicus brief in Greenberg v. Montefiore, a New York case about whether an individual can recover damages when a doctor provides unwanted medical treatment in…

Myers v. Schneiderman

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On February 4, 2015, three terminally ill individuals, five medical providers, and End of Life Choices New York (“Plaintiffs”) filed a Complaint with the New York Supreme Court in the…

Case Type: Past Cases

Blick v. Connecticut

Baxter v. Montana

Sampson v. Alaska

Stanley v. City of New York

Morris v. Bradenburg

Greenberg v. Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Myers v. Schneiderman