X-Message-Number: 6313
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 11:40:56 -0700
From: David Brandt-Erichsen <>
Subject: Ninth Circuit case update

Four Washington State doctors, who filed the original doctor-assisted
suicide suit in Washington, have filed counter-arguments with the U.S.
Supreme Court in response to the temporary stay of the Ninth Circuit court
ruling which had legalized physician-assisted suicide.  The stay was granted
until July 4 by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.  The
counter-argument states that a more permanent stay of the ruling "would
irreparably harm mentally competent, terminally ill adults."  Justice
O'Connor, who oversees the 9th Circuit, is expected to act shortly on
whether the 9th Circuit can lift the temporary stay or leave it in place
until the full Supreme Court decides whether it will hear the case (a
process which would take about six months).

 <David Brandt-Erichsen>


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