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IN RE AMB

Docket No. 218869.

640 N.W.2d 262 (2001)

248 Mich. App. 144

In the Matter of AMB, Minor. Family Independence Agency, Petitioner-Appellee, Family Independence Agency, Petitioner-Appellee, v. AMB, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided November 6, 2001, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication January 25, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Judy Hartsfield, Assistant In Charge, and Larry W. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General, for the Family Independence Agency.

William E. Ladd, Detroit, for AMB.

Mary J. Bomgren, Calvin A. Luker, and Kathleen N. Harris, Livonia, for Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc.

Judith Andre, Howard Brody, Leonard M. Fleck, Thomas Tomlinson, and Clayton L. Thomason, East Lansing, in propria persona, as scholars in medical ethics.

Frank E. Vandervoort, Charlotte L. Allen, and Evelyn Tombers, Ann Arbor, Midland, Lansing, for the Children's Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan.

Anne Argiroff and Ann Routt, Troy, for The American Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Southern Michigan.

Before: WHITBECK, P.J., and McDONALD and COLLINS, JJ.

WHITBECK, P.J.

Apparently relying on an "order" entered by a family court referee, medical personnel at Children's Hospital of Michigan withdrew life-sustaining medical treatment that AMB, an infant, was receiving. She died soon thereafter. William Ladd, the attorney appointed to represent her in the protective proceeding that originally brought her situation before the family court, appeals on her behalf. We reverse.<...

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