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LOVATO v. DISTRICT COURT IN & FOR TENTH JUD.

No. 79SA407.

601 P.2d 1072 (1979)

Rosalie LOVATO, a/k/a Rosalie Trujillo and Laurence A. Ardell and Mickey W. Smith, as Guardians Ad Litem of Jerry Trujillo, Petitioners, v. The DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the TENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, State of Colorado and the Honorable Donald E. Abram, one of the District Judges in and for the Tenth Judicial District, State of Colorado, Parkview Episcopal Hospital, Thomas K. Reichert, M. D., Jerry (NMI) Trujillo, Lawrence Nash Baros and the Pueblo County Department of Social Services, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

October 15, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl W. Gellenthien, Pueblo, for petitioner Rosalie Lovato, a/k/a Rosalie Trujillo.

Laurence A. Ardell, Pueblo, guardian ad litem, Mickey W. Smith, Pueblo, guardian ad litem, petitioners pro se.

Petersen & Fonda, Thomas T. Farley, Pueblo, for respondent Parkview Episcopal Hospital.

Stephen A. Reed, Asst. County Atty., Peublo, for respondent Pueblo County Dept. of Social Services.

No appearance for other respondents.

GROVES, Justice.

This is an original proceeding to review the order of the respondent district court directing the guardians ad litem of a child to execute a document authorizing the treating physician of the child and the hospital involved to remove all life support devices if in the doctor's opinion the child was legally dead, as defined by the court. The court stayed execution of its order for 10 days in order to permit review of the decision. We issued a rule...

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