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QUILL v. KOPPELL

No. 94 Civ. 5321 (TPG).

870 F.Supp. 78 (1994)

Timothy E. QUILL, M.D.; Samuel C. Klagsbrun, M.D.; and Howard A. Grossman, M.D., Plaintiffs, v. G. Oliver KOPPELL, Attorney General of the State of New York; Mario M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of New York; and Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney of New York County, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 15, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA, (Kathryn L. Tucker, David J. Burman, Thomas L. Boeder, of counsel) and Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City (Carla A. Kerr and Tracy E. Poole, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

G. Oliver Koppell, Atty. Gen. of the State of NY, Michael S. Popkin, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City (Mark Dwyer and James M. McGuire, Asst. Dist. Attys., of counsel), for defendants.

New York State Catholic Conference, Albany, NY (Michael L. Costello, Richard E. Barnes, Clarke D. Forsythe, and Paul Benjamin Linton, of counsel), amicus curiae.

Legal Center for the Defense of Life, New York City (Michael P. Tierney, John M. McSherry, and Walter T. Clark, of counsel), amicus curiae.

OPINION

GRIESA, Chief Judge.

New York law makes it a crime to aid a person in committing suicide, or in attempting to commit suicide. Plaintiffs urge that these provisions violate the United States Constitution, to the extent that they apply to situations where a physician aids the commission of suicide by a mentally competent, terminally ill adult wishing to avoid continued severe suffering, by prescribing a death-producing drug which the patient...

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