State Cases – Page 2 – Compassion & Choices

Ahn, et al. v Hestrin

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Compassion Legal—the End-of-Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices—has fought tirelessly to protect California’s End of Life Option Act, which took effect on June 9, 2016. Just one day before…

Compassion Legal—the End-of-Life Justice Center at 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…

Radcliffe v. Hawai‘i

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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…

Norris, et al. v. Richardson Methodist Health System

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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

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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

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On May 15, 2015, Compassion Legal—the End-of-Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices—filed suit on behalf of three Californians with terminal or advanced diseases and a physician asserting that the…

Hallada v. Lakeland Regional Medical Center

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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…

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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Robert Baxter and Steven Stoelb were two terminally ill Montana residents, both of whom desired to end their lives through medical aid in dying, as opposed to the painful and…

Case Type: State Cases

Ahn, et al. v Hestrin

In the Matter of Romero

Radcliffe v. Hawai‘i

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