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Minnesota Healthcare Decision Making
On this page, I collect some key legal resources on healthcare decision -making in Minnesota:
  • Battery
  • Infomed consent
  • Advance directives
  • Default surrogates
  • POLST
  • Guardianship
  • Medical aid in dying
  • Assisted suicide
  • VSED
  • Brain death

Battery
Kohoutek v Hafner (Minn 1986)
Mohr v Williams (Minn 1905)
Informed Consent
Minnesota Patients’ Bill of Rights
Cornfeldt v Tongen (Minn 1977)
KAC v. Benson (Minn 1985)
Advance Directives - Law
Patient Bill of Rights
Health Care Decisions Act
In re Barnes (Hennepin County 2011)
Pope - MINNESOTA HEALTH CARE NEWS (Nov. 2015)
Advance Directives - Tools

Honoring Choices Minnesota:   A collaborative, community-based Advance Care Planning initiative led by Twin Cities Medical Society through its Foundation.

Five Wishes: The most widely used advance directive or living will in America. It is often called the “living will with a heart and soul” because it includes the things that matter the most. Unlike most other advance directives, it is easy to use and understand.


Honoring Choices MN FORM
Catholic FORM
Halachic FORM
Psychiatric Advance Directive FORM
UMN Extension FORM
Wilson - JAGS 2014 (AD completion in MN)
NRLC Will to Live Form
Default Surrogates
Minn. S.F. 2567 (2025)
PPT to Minnesota Aging Conference (Oct. 26, 2017)
Minnesota Medical Association Policies
Butcher v. Fashingbauer (Ramsey County Dist. Ct. 1995)
Butcher v. Fashingbauer (Ramsey County Dist. Ct. 1994)
Butcher v. Fashingbauer (Feb. 1993) (Complaint)
Blumer, Minnesota Medicine (Feb. 1995)
Butcher v. Fashingbauer (Ramsey Cty., Minn. 1994)
POLST
Minnesota POLST: The Provider Orders For Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a portable medical order that can give patients with advanced serious illness the option to exercise increased control over the treatment they do and do not want to receive at the end of life. The program is hosted by the Minnesota Medical Association.

Draft revised form POLST MN
Whitman v Highland Manor (2014) (Complaint)
MN DOH Inspection Report - Oak Hills 2013
Sandler - STAR TRIBUNE (March 2020)
Guardianship
In re Tschumy (Minn 2014)
In re Tschumy (Minn App 2013)
In re Tschumy (Hennepin County 2012)
In re Helga Wanglie (Hennepin Cty, Minn 1991)
In re Tschumy (Hennepin Cty., Minn. Oct. 2012)
Medical Aid in Dying
Minn. H.F. 2998 (2025)
Minn. S.F. 3215 (2025)
Thaddeus Pope - Testimony on H.F. 1930, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE FINANCE AND POLICY, MINNESOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE (March 18, 2024).

Thaddeus Pope - Testimony on H.F. 1930, COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FINANCE, AND CIVIL LAW, MINNESOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE (March 12, 2024).

Thaddeus Pope - Testimony on H.F. 1930, COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, FINANCE, AND POLICY, MINNESOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE (March 7, 2024).

Thaddeus Pope - Testimony on H.F. 1930, COMMITTEE ON HEALTH FINANCE AND POLICY, MINNESOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE (January 25, 2024).

All Testimony - Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee (March 18, 2024)
Pope Testimony on HF1930 (January 25, 2024)
Bill for January 25, 2024 Hearing
Pope Roundtable Presentation (September 6, 2023)
MN House State Fair Poll (Sept. 2023)
Minn. S.F. 1813 (2023)
Min. H.F. 1930 (2023)
Video of January 28, 2022 ethics grand rounds at the University of Minnesota: "MN End-of-Life Option Act: Medical Aid in Dying is a Compassionate Option for Terminally Ill Patient."

Video of the September 11, 2019 hearing before House Health and Human Services Policy.

Minn SF 2487 (2019)
Minn HF 2152 (2019)
PPT of Pope presentation to HCMC (Dec. 2017)
Minn SF 1572 (2017) End-of-Life Option Act of 2017
Minn HF 1885 (2017) End-of-Life Option Act of 2017
Plimpton, MINN MED 2017
Minn SF 1880 (2016)
Pope - Written Testimony SF 1880 (Mar. 2016)
Pope - Oral Testimony Script SF 1880 (Mar 2016)
Collected Written Testimony SF 1880 1 of 2 (Mar. 2016)
Collected Written Testimony SF 1880 2 of 2 (Mar. 2016)
2016 Minnesota State Fair Survey
Eaton & Thoman, MINN PHYSICIAN 2016
Thoman MINNESOTA PHYSICIAN 2019
Assisted Suicide
Minnesota Statute 609.215
Minnesota v. Melchert-Dinkel (Minn App 2012)
Minnesota v. Melchert-Dinkel (Minn 2014)
Final Exit Network v. Minnesota (Minn App 2016)
Final Exit Network v. Minnesota (Minn 2017) (petition for review)
Final Exit Network v. Minnesota (Dakota County Opposition to Certiorari)
Final Exit Network v Minnesota (D. Minn. April 2018) (Complaint)
Minnesota motion to dismiss (D Minn)
Notice of Hearing on motion to dismiss (D Minn)
FEN v. Minnesota amended complaint (Aug 2018)
FEN v. Minnesota motion to dismiss (Sept 2018)
FEN v Minnesota (D Minn Feb 22, 2019) (Order granting motion to dismiss)
Final Exit Network v Stuart (D. Minn. 2021) (Complaint)
Callinan - MINN POST June 2019
VSED
Ken - 1994 case in Star Tribune
Brain Death
Minnesota Uniform Determination of Death Act UDDA
State v. Olson (Minn 1989)
Palliative Care Report Card
CAPC 2015
Decision Making for Prisoners
Minn. Stat. 241.75