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MERCY HOSP. v. JACKSON

No. 88, September Term, 1985.

306 Md. 556 (1986)

510 A.2d 562

MERCY HOSPITAL, INC. v. ERNESTINE JACKSON.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 30, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Travieso (Christopher J. Fritz, Gallagher, Evelius & Jones, on brief) Baltimore, for appellant.

Barbara B. Mello, American Civil Liberties Union of Md., Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, JR., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

Mercy Hospital and Ernestine Jackson have asked us to answer some fundamental questions concerning the limits, if any, of Mrs. Jackson's constitutional right to refuse a blood transfusion. The case, however, is now moot. Furthermore, for reasons hereafter set forth, this is not one of those rare instances in which it would be appropriate for the Court to express its views concerning the merits of a moot controversy.

I.

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