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IN RE RIDDLEMOSER

No. 17, September Term, 1989.

317 Md. 496 (1989)

564 A.2d 812

IN RE ROSA A. RIDDLEMOSER.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 17, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Novak (William G. Kolodner, P.A., Bernard Greenberg, all on brief), and Ellen Stoffer, Baltimore, for appellant.

J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Ralph S. Tyler, Jack Schwartz, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baltimore, for State of Md., amicus curiae.

M. Rose Gasner and Fenella Rouse, Richard Wasserman, Sinnreich & Wasserman, New York City, and Robert J. Ryan and Moore, Carney, Ryan & Lattanzi, Baltimore, for Soc. for the Right to Die, Inc., amicus curiae.

Varda N. Fink, Carolyn Jacobs, Baltimore, for Johns Hopkins Health System Corp., Johns Hopkins Hosp., Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Homewood Hosp. Center, John R. Metz and Piper & Marbury of Baltimore, for Bon Secours Extended Care Facility, Bon Secours Hosp., Carroll County Gen. Hosp., Caroline Nursing Home, Children's Hosp. and Center for Reconstructive Surgery, Peninsula Gen. Hosp. Medical Center, St. Mary's Hosp., Shady Grove Adventist Hosp., Shady Grove Nursing Center, Sinai Hosp. of Baltimore, University of Maryland Medical System and Washington Adventist Hosp., amici curiae.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS, and BLACKWELL, JJ.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

We granted certiorari in this case upon a certification of issues of law from the Court of Special Appeals, pursuant to Maryland Rule 8-304. A threshold procedural issue is whether, if the appeal is now moot, we should nevertheless address the substantive issue in the case because of the urgency of establishing a rule of future conduct. The substantive issue presented is whether circuit courts possess authority to authorize a guardian to withhold...

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