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KLIGLER v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

SJC-13194.

491 Mass. 38 (2022)

ROGER M. KLIGLER & another v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 19, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Kappos , of California ( Meng Xu , of California, Kevin Díaz , of Oregon, & Jonathan M. Albano also present) for the plaintiffs.

Maria Granik , Assistant Attorney General ( Julie E. Green & James A. Sweeney , Assistant Attorneys General, also present) for the defendants.

Christopher P. Schandevel , of Virginia, for Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Konstantin Tretyakov, pro se.

Dwight G. Duncan for Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc.

Michelle M. Uzeta , of California, for Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund & others.

Catherine Glenn Foster , Steven H. Aden , Katie Glenn , & Natalie M. Hejran , of the District of Columbia, Carolyn McDonnell , of Wisconsin, & Andrew Beckwith for Christian Medical & Dental Associations.

Kevin Yuill, pro se.

Brandon Jiha , of the District of Columbia, Robert A. Skinner , Thanithia Billings , & Douglas Hallward-Driemeier for Massachusetts Medical Society & another.

Andrés J. Gallegos , of Illinois, for National Council on Disability.

Michael J. Kerrigan for four Roman Catholic Bishops of the Dioceses of Massachusetts.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.

In this case, we are faced with the solemn task of determining whether the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights provides a substantive due process right to physician-assisted suicide. The plaintiffs, a doctor who wishes to provide physician-assisted suicide and a patient who has been diagnosed with an incurable cancer, contend that terminally...

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