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Washington Vs. Glucksberg

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 08, 1997

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  9. U.S. 702 (1997) October Term, 1996 Syllabus Washington Et Al. V. Glucksberg
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  10. terminally ill adult to commit physician-assisted suicide. Relying primarily on Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey
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  11. U. S. 833 , and Cruzan v. Director
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  12. rights and liberties which are, objectively, deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition. E. g., Moore v. East
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  13. of the asserted fundamental liberty interest. E. g., Reno v. Flores
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  14. any and all important, intimate, and personal decisions are so protected, see San Antonio Independent School Dist. v. Rodriguez
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  15. Washington's assisted-suicide ban be rationally related to legitimate government interests, see, e. g., Heller v. Doe
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  16. is, on its face, unconstitutional. Compassion in Dying v. Washington
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  17. Ibid. Relying primarily on Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey
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  18. U. S. 833 (1992), and Cruzan v. Director
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  19. Id., at 1466 (quoting Cleburne v. Cleburne
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  20. standard, 505 U. S., at 874 (joint opinion), not the standard from United States v. Salerno
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  21. Dying v. Washington
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  22. Circuit reheard the case en bane, reversed the panel's decision, and affirmed the District Court. Compassion in Dying v. Washington
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  23. at 838, n. 139, and sharply criticized the opinion in a separate case then pending before the Ninth Circuit, Lee v. Oregon
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  24. Moore v. East
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  25. violates the Equal Protection Clause because it does not provide adequate safeguards against abuse), vacated, Lee v. Oregon
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  26. the Court of Appeals below, and we offer no opinion as to the validity of the Lee courts' reasoning. In Vacco v. Quill
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  27. hold that New York's assisted-suicide ban does not violate the Equal Protection Clause. 8See Compassion in Dying v. Washington
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  28. Rodriguez v. British
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  29. see Stanford v. Kentucky
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  30. Hales v. Petit
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  31. from Blackstone's treatment of suicide, courts continued to condemn it as a grave public wrong. See, e. g., Bigelow v. Berkshire
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  32. Von Holden v. Chapman
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  33. Blackwood v. Jones
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  34. Commonwealth v. Mink
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  35. quoting Chief Justice Parker's charge to the jury in Commonwealth v. Bowen
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  36. Martin v. Commonwealth
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  37. Blackburn v. State
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  38. surrogate health-care decisionmaking, and the withdrawal or refusal of life-sustaining medical treatment. See Vacco v. Quill
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  39. People v. Kevorkian
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  40. Lee v. Oregon
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  41. sufficient safeguards for terminally ill persons and therefore violates the Equal Protection Clause), vacated, Lee v. Oregon
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  42. claim that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms establishes a fundamental right to assisted suicide, Rodriguez v. British
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  43. it protects includes more than the absence of physical restraint. Collins v. Harker
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  44. see Colombia's Top Court Legalizes Euthanasia, Orlando Sentinel, May 22, 1997, p. A1S. 720 ing Daniels v. Williams
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  45. heightened protection against government interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interests. Reno v. Flores
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  46. specially protected by the Due Process Clause includes the rights to marry, Loving v. Virginia
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  47. to have children, Skinner v. Oklahoma
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  48. to direct the education and upbringing of one's children, Meyer v. Nebraska
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  49. Pierce v. Society
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