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COMPASSION IN DYING v. STATE OF WASH.

No. C94-119R.

850 F.Supp. 1454 (1994)

COMPASSION IN DYING, a Washington nonprofit corporation, Jane Roe, John Doe, James Poe, Harold Glucksberg, M.D., Abigail Halperin, M.D., Thomas A. Preston, M.D., and Peter Shalit, M.D., Ph.D., Plaintiffs, v. The STATE OF WASHINGTON and Christine Gregoire, Attorney General of Washington, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Washington, at Seattle.

May 3, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn L. Tucker, Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA, for plaintiffs.

William Lee Williams, Attorney General's Office, Health Div., Olympia, WA, for defendants.

Todd Maybrown, Allen & Hansen, Karen E. Boxx, Keller Rohrback, Seattle, WA, for amici.

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND DENYING DEFENDANTS' CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

ROTHSTEIN, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

THIS COURT is asked to rule as a matter of first impression on the constitutionality of the State of Washington's criminal prohibition against physician-assisted suicide. Specifically, the plaintiffs assert that the Fourteenth...

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