IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF BROWNING

No. 74174.

568 So.2d 4 (1990)

In re GUARDIANSHIP OF Estelle M. BROWNING. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Doris F. HERBERT, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Russell, State Atty., and C. Marie King, Asst. State Atty., Clearwater, for petitioner/cross-respondent.

George J. Felos of Felos & Felos, Dunedin, for respondent/cross-petitioner.

William Trickel, Jr., Orlando, and Giles R. Scofield, III, New York City, amicus curiae for Concern for Dying.

John R. Day and Robert D. Miller of Shutts & Bowen, West Palm Beach, Fenella Rouse and M. Rose Gasner and Richard Wasserman of Sinnreich & Wasserman, New York City, amicus curiae for Soc. for the Right to Die, Inc.

James K. Stewart and Anna Mastroianni Boe of Green, Stewart & Farber, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae for The American Geriatrics Soc.


BARKETT, Justice.

We have for review In re Guardianship of Browning, 543 So.2d 258 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989), in which the district court certified the following question as one of great public importance:

Whether the guardian of a patient who is incompetent but not in a permanent vegetative state and who suffers from an incurable, but not terminal condition, may exercise the patient...

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