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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (CN) – A state appeals court in California on Tuesday vacated a lower court ruling that struck the state’s physician-assisted suicide law as unconstitutional, finding the Christian doctors who challenged the 2016 law lacked standing to sue because they didn’t show they’ll be forced to help patients die.
The Fourth Appellate District did not, however, decide the constitutionality of the End of Life Option Act.
In 2017, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia advanced a lawsuit filed by Life Legal Defense Foundation on behalf of a group of California-based doctors and the American Academy of Medical Ethics doing business as Christian Medical and Dental Society. The groups sought to block the law on grounds it violated the state Constitution because it was passed during a special session of the Legislature meant to deal solely with access to health care.
The Riverside District Attorney and California Attorney General were named in the suit, which was filed the day before the law went into effect in 2016.
This past May, Ottolia agreed the law did not fall within the scope of access to health care services, ruled suicide should not be considered a medical service and granted summary judgment for the groups. He stayed his ruling, issued from the bench, to give the state time to appeal.
Lack of Standing Dooms Suit to Block California Assisted-Suicide Law
And they did.
This ain't rocket science.
The Fourth Appellate District did not, however, decide the constitutionality of the End of Life Option Act.
In 2017, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia advanced a lawsuit filed by Life Legal Defense Foundation on behalf of a group of California-based doctors and the American Academy of Medical Ethics doing business as Christian Medical and Dental Society. The groups sought to block the law on grounds it violated the state Constitution because it was passed during a special session of the Legislature meant to deal solely with access to health care.
The Riverside District Attorney and California Attorney General were named in the suit, which was filed the day before the law went into effect in 2016.
This past May, Ottolia agreed the law did not fall within the scope of access to health care services, ruled suicide should not be considered a medical service and granted summary judgment for the groups. He stayed his ruling, issued from the bench, to give the state time to appeal.
Lack of Standing Dooms Suit to Block California Assisted-Suicide Law
And they did.
This ain't rocket science.
