COMPASSION IN DYING, a Washington nonprofit corporation; Jane Roe; John Doe; James Poe, Harold Glucksberg, M.D., Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
STATE OF WASHINGTON; Christine Gregoire, Attorney General of Washington, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted December 7, 1994.
Filed March 9, 1995.
Order Granting Rehearing August 1, 1995.
Argued and Submitted October 26, 1995.
Decided March 6, 1996.
As Amended May 28, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Christine Gregoire, Attorney General, and William L. Williams, Senior Assistant Attorney General (argued), Olympia, Washington, for defendants-appellants.
Kathryn L. Tucker (argued), David J. Burman, Thomas L. Boeder, Kari Anne Smith, Perkins Coie, Seattle, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellees.
Wesley J. Smith, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Intern. Anti-Euthanasia Task Force.
Katrin E. Frank, Robert A. Free, Kathleen Wareham, MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, Washington, for amicus curiae Ten Surviving Family Members.
James Bopp, Jr., Thomas J. Marzen, Daniel Avila, John Altomare, Jane E.T. Brockman, National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, as amicus curiae.
John R. Reese, Robert A. Lewis, Page R. Barnes, Amy J. Metzler, Holly Morris, McCuthchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Americans for Death with Dignity.
Mary D. Clement, Junction City, Oregon, for amicus curiae Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization.
Mark E. Chopko, Michael F. Moses, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae United States Catholic Conference.
Paul Benjamin Linton, Clarke D. Forsythe, Americans United for Life, Chicago, Illinois, for amici curiae, Washington State Legislators.
Barbara Allan Shickich, Joseph E. Shickich, Jr., Graham & James, LLP/Riddell Williams, P.S., Seattle, Washington, for amicus curiae Washington State Hospital Association and Catholic Health Association of the United States.
Catherine W. Smith, Edwards, Sieh, Hathaway, Smith & Goodfriend, P.S., Seattle, Washington, for amicus curiae Amici State Legislators.
Todd Maybrown, Allen, Hansen & Maybrown, Karen Boxx and Juli Farris, Keller Rohrback, Seattle, Washington, for amici curiae the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, the Northwest Women's Law Center, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., AIDS Action Council, the Northwest AIDS Foundation, the Seattle AIDS Support Group, the Gray Panthers Project Fund, the Older Women's League, the Seattle Chapter of the National Organization for Women, the American Humanist Association, the National Lawyers Guild, Local 6 of the Service Employees International Union, Temple De Hirsch Sinai, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Seattle Chapter and the Pacific Northwest District Council of the Japanese American Citizens League.
Kirk B. Johnson, Michael L. Ile, David Orentlicher, Jack R. Bierig, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Illinois, Paul E. Kalb, Sidley & Austin, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae American Medical Association.
Before BROWNING, HUG, SCHROEDER, FLETCHER, PREGERSON, REINHARDT, BEEZER, WIGGINS, THOMPSON, FERNANDEZ, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Order Granting Rehearing En Banc August 1, 1995.
Opinion by Judge REINHARDT; Dissent by Judge BEEZER; Dissent by Judge FERNANDEZ; Dissent by Judge KLEINFELD.
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
I.
This case raises an extraordinarily important and difficult issue. It compels us to address questions to which there are no easy or simple answers, at law or otherwise. It requires us to confront the most basic of human concerns — the mortality of...
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