COOLEY v. GRANHOLM

No. 01-1067.

291 F.3d 880 (2002)

Roy COOLEY, M.D.; M.W. El-Nachef, M.D., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jennifer GRANHOLM, Attorney General of the State of Michigan; Douglas Mack, M.D., Chairperson; Michigan Board of Medicine, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: May 29, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa L. Dwyer (briefed), Detroit, Michigan, Robert A. Sedler (argued and briefed), Detroit, Michigan, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Thomas R. Wheeker (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Tort Defense Div., Lansing, Michigan, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MERRITT, SUHRHEINRICH, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia case, questions of justiciability and questions of the constitutionality of Michigan euthanasia legislation are raised. The District Court held that Michigan's recently enacted anti-euthanasia statute does not violate the substantive due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case raises case-or-controversy questions of mootness and ripeness for adjudication and, on...

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