State Cases – Compassion & Choices

Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled v. Hochul

lukej June 22, 2026 No Comments

At a Glance: On June 22, 2026, Compassion Legal: The End-of-Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices and WilmerHale, led by Ryan Chabot, filed a motion to intervene on behalf…

Estate of Sarah Marie Cooper v. J.W. Ruby Hospital et al.

lukej February 17, 2026 No Comments

At a Glance: Compassion Legal is fighting to hold healthcare providers accountable for disregarding explicit end-of-life instructions. Compassion & Choices’ mission is to ensure everyone’s end-of-life decisions are heard and…

Curran v. Meyer

Katie Wingo December 20, 2025 No Comments

At a Glance: On December 19, 2025, three intervenors, including Compassion & Choices Action Network, filed a motion to intervene and oppose a lawsuit seeking to invalidate Delaware’s newly-passed Heather…

Koskenoja v. Whitmer

lukej October 23, 2025 No Comments

At a Glance: On October 23, 2025, Compassion Legal: The End-of-Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices, along with If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, Perkins Coie LLP, and Mogill &…

Vernon v. Kobach

lukej May 29, 2025 No Comments

At a Glance: On May 29, 2025, Compassion Legal: the End-of-Life Justice center at Compassion & Choices, along with If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice and Irigonegaray & Revenaugh, filed Vernon…

McComas v. Polis

lukej May 23, 2025 No Comments

At a Glance: On May 22, 2025, Compassion Legal filed McComas v. Polis, a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the residency requirement in Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act. The residency…

Richwine v. Matuszak

lukej July 8, 2024 No Comments

In August 2023, the Indiana State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service issued a cease-and-desist order to Death Done Differently, LLC — a business offering death doula services run by…

Full Circle of Living and Dying v. Sanchez

lukej March 1, 2024 No Comments

Amicus: Filed November 19, 2021 In November 2019, the California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau ordered Full Circle of Living and Dying, a nonprofit educational consulting group of death doulas, to…

Kligler, et al. v. Healey, et al.

lukej March 1, 2024 No Comments

Litigation: Filed October 24, 2016 Roger Kligler, a retired physician in Falmouth, Massachusetts, has lived with prostate cancer for two decades. As a doctor himself, Roger dealt firsthand with cancer…

Case Type: State Cases