State Cases – Page 2 – Compassion & Choices

Norris, et al. v. Richardson Methodist Health System

March 1, 2024 No Comments

On October 6, 2014, Sally Jordan executed her living will, which is a document that provides physicians with a patient’s healthcare wishes in the event the patient is unable to…

Hooker v. Slatery

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…

O’Donnell v. Harris

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…

Hallada v. Lakeland Regional Medical Center

March 1, 2024 No Comments

Marjorie Mangiaruca, an Alzheimer’s patient, repeatedly told her daughter that “she would not want to have a prolonged death, or to have her life extended by any artificial means, including…

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

March 1, 2024 No Comments

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

March 1, 2024 No Comments

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…

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Norris, et al. v. Richardson Methodist Health System

Hooker v. Slatery

O’Donnell v. Harris

Hallada v. Lakeland Regional Medical Center

Blick v. Connecticut

Baxter v. Montana

Sampson v. Alaska