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Brain Death - Accommodation
Four U.S. states require clinicians to at least briefly accommodate religious or moral objections to brain death: California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York. Notably, New Jersey law goes further and completely exempts those with a religious objection from being declared dead on brain death criteria. 

Accommodation Statutes
California
California Brain Death Accommodation (2008)
California DPH Letter
Illinois
Illinois Accommodation Law (2008)
Chicago Jewish Star article (2007)
New Jersey
New Jersey Declaration of Death Act (1991)
Guidelines - Ad Hoc Committee on Declaration of Death by Neurologic Criteria (2014)
New Jersey Report on NJDDA (2013)
New York
NYCRR 400.16
NY DOH Letter (2005)
New York DOH Guidelines (2005)
New York DOH Guidelines (2011)
New York State Task Force on Life and the Law Report (1986)
Unenacted Accommodation Bills
Texas H.B. 4329 (2021)
California A.B. 3311 (1986)
Accommodation Court Cases
Nakar v NY Presbyterian Hospital (Kings County Supreme Court NY 2019)
McKitty v Hayani (Ont Sup Ct June 26, 2018)
Banerjee v CHOP (ED Pa 2018) (Order)
Banerjee v CHOP (ED Pa 2018) (Complaint)
Jayden Auyeung v CHOP (Philadelphia Orphans Court May 16, 2018) (opposition to injunction)
Jayden Auyeung v CHOP (Philadelphia Orphans Court May 16, 2018) (request for injunction)
Banerjee v CHOP (Philadelphia County, PA 2018)
Motl Brody (DC 2008)
Cho Fook Cheng (Mass. 2006)
Virk v. Detroit Receiving Hospital (Mich App 1996)
Arthur Johnson (Fla. 2011)
Settlements Where Patient Goes Home
Jesse Koochin (Utah 1994)
Theresa Hamilton (Fla. 1994)
UK Cases
In re A [2015] EWHC 443 (Fam)