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End-of-Life Medical Treatment Cases

This page collects legal documents pertaining to end-of-life legal issues other than medical futility:

1. Providers Must Comply with VSED Decision

2. Clinicians Should Not Follow a Bad Surrogate

3. Good Surrogates Refuse LSMT

4. Patients with Capacity May Refuse LSMT

5. Clinicians Must Follow Valid Instructions

6. Clinicians May Not Adminster LSMT without Consent

7. Enforcement of Right-to-Know Laws

8. Challenges to Aid-in-Dying Prohibitions

9. Enforcement of Assisted Suicide Prohibition

10. Involuntary Active Euthanasia

11. Other

Since 2007, I have been posting legal materials on end-of-life issues. I am happy to disseminate these materials for free. But while filngs in state and federal court are in the public domain, PACER and state court website services do charge retrieval fees. And the significant number of user downloads on this site requires server bandwidth. If you find this website useful, please consider donating $1, $5, or $10. It’s is a small amount to inform bioethics policy. It’s money well spent.

1. Providers Must Comply with VSED Decision

Please see cases on the separate VSED page.

2. Clinicians Should Not Follow Bad Surrogate

NMS Healthcare Hagerstown (DHHS DAB 2015)

Disability Rights Wisconsin v. Univ. Wisconsin (Wis App 2014)

Frausto v. Texas HHS (WD Tex 2014) (complaint)

Stover v. Garfield (Mich. App. 2001)

Cardoza v. USC (Cal. App. 2008)

Cardoza v. USC (LA Sup. Ct. 2010) (on remand)

3. Good Surrogates Refuse LSMT

Ng v. Ng (BCSC 2013)

Kahn v Kramer (NY Sup Oct. 14, 2014)

Kahn v Kramer (NY Sup Oct. 29, 2014)

4. Patients with Capacity May Refuse LSMT

In re Grace Lee (N.Y. Sup. A.D. Oct. 5, 2012)

5. Clinicians Must Follow Valid Instructions

Marcum v. St Agnes Medical Center (Fresno Cty Sup. Ct, Cal. 2016) (Amended Complaint)

Schuller v. BV General (LASC 2015) (Complaint)

Noval v. Kaiser Fdn. Health Plan (Riverside Cty, Cal., Feb. 2012) (Complaint)

6. Clinicians May Not Administer LSMT without Consent

Doctors Hospital v. Alicea (Ga App 2015)

Daniels v. GGNSC Trussvilee (N.D. Ala. Dec. 29, 2014) (Complaint)

Florida v. Jacaranda Manor (June 2014)

Hallada v. Lakeland Regional Med. Ctr. (Fla. Cir. Ct. Apr. 2013) (Complaint)

Self v. Milyard (D. Colo. 2012)

Sekerez v. Rush Univ. Med. Center, (Ill. App. 2011)

DeArmond v. Permanente Medical (OCSC Nov. 2011) (complaint)

Self v. Milyard (D. Colo. 2011) (complaint)

Jones v. Ruston Hospital (La. App. 2011)

DiGeronimo v. Fuchs (NY Supr. 2011)

Johnson v. University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UK 2010)

Cronin v. Jamaica Hospital (NY Supr. 2009)

Hoslton v. Englewood Hosp. (NJ Super. 2009)

Karem v. Jefferson Manor (Ky. CHFS 2008)

Scheible v Morse Geriatric (Fla. App. 2008)

Terry v. Red River Corp (La. App. 2006)

Folley v. United Surgical (NM complaint 2006)

Marasovic v. Eberhard (Cal. App. 2006)

Loveless v. Colo Springs Mem Hosp (El Paso Cty, Colo 2005)

Furlong v. Catholic Health East (Cal. App. 2004)

Montalvo v. Borkovec (Wis. App. 2002)

Taylor v. Muncie Med. (Ind. App. 2000)

HCA v. Miller (Tex. App. 2000)

Wright v. Johns Hopkins (Md. 1999)

Klavan v. Crozer-Chester Med. (E.D. Pa. 1999)

Gragg v. Calandra (Ill. App. 1998)

Anderson v. St. Francis Hosp. (Ohio 1996)

Osgood v. Genesys Regional Medical Center (Genesee Cty, Mich. 1996)

Strachan v. JFK Hosp. (NJ 1988)

Foster v. Toutellottee (9th Cir. 1983)

7. Enforcement of Right-to-Know Laws

Hargett v. VITAS (Alameda Sup. Ct., Cal. 2010) (Complaint)

Arato v Avedon (Cal. 1993)

8. Challenges to Aid-in-Dying Prohibitions

Morris v. Brandenburg (NM App Aug. 2015)

Donorovich v Harris (San Diego Sup. Ct., Cal July 2015) (Order)

Morris v. Brandenberg (NM Dist. Ct. 2014)

Schindler v. Perdue (N.D. Ga. Dec. 9., 2010) (Complaint)

Carter v. Attorney General (BCSC Apr. 2011) (Complaint)

Carter v. Canada (BCSC June 2012)

Carter v. Canada (BCCA Aug. 10, 2012)

Nicklinson v. Ministry of Justice, [2012] EWHC 2381 (Admin)

In re José Euripides Parra Parra, Sentencia No. C-239/97 (Colombia Corte Constitucional, Mayo 20, 1997)

9. Enforcement of Assisted Suicide Prohibition

In re Lawrence Egbert (Md. Physicians Board 2014)

10. Involuntary Active Euthanasia

Lagasse v. Tenet (La. App. 2011)

Krela v. Kryla (D. Ore. 2012) (Complaint)

11. Other

Butcher v. Fashingbauer (Ramsey Cty., Minn. 1994)

In re Tschumy (Hennepin Cty., Minn. Oct. 2012)

Templin v. Veterans Health (D. Mont. 2013)