Court Won’t Revisit Assisted Suicide Ruling
A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider its support of a law that allows Oregon doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients who want to die, according to an order made public in San Francisco.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in May that a Bush administration directive seeking to stop Oregon doctors from helping the terminally ill commit suicide was unlawful and unenforceable.
In the new ruling, the court declined an administration petition for a larger panel to reconsider the case.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
