Kevin SAMPSON and Jane Doe, Individually and as Representatives of the Class of All Other Persons Similarly Situated, Appellants,
v.
STATE of Alaska, Appellee.
Supreme Court of Alaska.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 21, 2001.
September 21, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert H. Wagstaff, Law Offices of Robert H. Wagstaff, Anchorage, and Kathryn Tucker, Perkins Coie, LLP, Seattle, WA, for Appellant.
Eric A. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee.
James M. Gorski, Hughes, Thorsness, Powell, Huddleston & Bauman, L.L.C., Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Alaska Catholic Conference.
William Grant Callow, Law Office of William Grant Callow, P.C., Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Alaska Civil Liberties Union.
Joseph M. Moran, DeLisio, Moran, Geraghty & Zobel, P.C., Anchorage, and James Bopp, Jr., National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Terre Haute, IN, for Amicus Curiae National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Kevin G. Clarkson, Brena, Bell, & Clarkson, P.C., Anchorage, for Amici Curiae North Star Civil Rights Defense Association, Inc., Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, and Alaskan Doctors Against Physician Assisted Suicide.
James M. Shine, James M. Shine, P.C., Juneau, for Amici Curiae Not Dead Yet and Alaska Not Dead Yet.
Timothy Lynch, Lynch & Blum, P.C., Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Physicians for Compassionate Care.
Before FABE, Chief Justice, MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, BRYNER, and CARPENETI, Justices.
Supreme Court of Alaska.
OPINION
BRYNER, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
Kevin Sampson and Jane Doe were mentally competent, terminally ill adults who sued for an order declaring their physicians exempt from Alaska's manslaughter statute for the purpose of assisting them to commit suicide. The superior court entered summary judgment against Sampson and Doe, and they appealed. We affirm the judgment, concluding that the Alaska...
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