MATTER OF BABY K

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Julia Krebs-Markrich, John E. Coffey, Hazel & Thomas, P.C., Falls Church, Virginia; Pleasant S. Brodnax, III, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellants. Ellen Joanne Flannery, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Jennifer L.W. Korjus, Hazel & Thomas, P.C., Falls Church, Virginia; Kenneth E. Labowitz, Young, Goldman & Van Beek, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellants. Debra Ann Palmer, Richard W. Buchanan, Theodore M. Hirsch, Georgia Kazakis, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. Alison Paige Landry, ReNee D. Brooks, Department for Rights of Virginians with Disabilities, Richmond, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae Department for Rights of Virginians with Disabilities; Walter A. Smith, Jr., Stephan E. Lawton, Anne M. Dellinger, Laura E. Loeb, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae American Academy of Pediatrics and Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Before WILKINS and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and SPROUSE, Senior Circuit Judge.