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Vernon v. Kobach

lukej May 29, 2025 No Comments
At a Glance: On May 29, 2025, Compassion & Choices, along with If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice and Irigonegaray & Revenaugh, filed Vernon v. Kobach, a lawsuit in Kansas state…
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McComas v. Polis

lukej May 23, 2025 No Comments
At a Glance: On May 22, 2025, Compassion & Choices filed McComas v. Polis, a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the residency requirement in Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act. The…
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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…
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Ahn, et al. v Hestrin

lukej March 1, 2024 No Comments
Compassion & Choices’ Legal Advocacy has fought tirelessly to protect California’s End of Life Option Act, which took effect on June 9, 2016. Just one day before the law was…
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In the Matter of Romero

lukej March 1, 2024 No Comments
Compassion & Choices successfully represented Ana Romero, the widow of Juan Fernando Romero, when Juan’s family sued to take away Ana’s authority to make healthcare decisions for her husband. In…
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Radcliffe v. Hawai‘i

lukej March 1, 2024 No Comments
John Radcliffe, a resident of Honolulu, Hawai’i, was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. John wanted the option to receive a prescription for medical aid in dying in the event that…
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Hooker v. Slatery

lukej March 1, 2024 No Comments
John Jay Hooker was an attorney and well known activist in Nashville, Tennessee. When John Jay was diagnosed with terminal metastatic melanoma in 2015, he began fighting to access medical…
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O’Donnell v. Harris

lukej March 1, 2024 No Comments
On May 15, 2015, Compassion & Choices filed suit on behalf of three Californians with terminal or advanced diseases and a physician asserting that the California Constitution and existing state…
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