IN RE P.V.W.

No. 82-CA-2637.

424 So.2d 1015 (1982)

In re P.V.W.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 10, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Warren E. Mouledoux, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Janice B. Unland, Staff Atty., Ronald C. Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Paul G. Mayoral, Asst. Dist. Atty., John A. Hollister, McNulty, O'Connor, Stakelum & Anderson, Susan E. Henning, Stephen M. Sullivan, New Orleans, for appellant.

Cheryl B. Horton, Max Nathan, Jr., Sessions, Fishman, Rosenson, Boisfontaine & Nathan, New Orleans, for appellee.


LEMMON, Justice.

This is an action for a declaratory judgment filed in juvenile court by the parents of a new born infant whose brain allegedly was severely and irreversibly damaged at birth and who has been in a comatose state since birth, with life sustained only by a mechanical ventilator. The attending neonatalists and the hospital joined as petitioners, requesting that the juvenile court conduct an evidentiary hearing and declare that the child is in a "continued...

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