International Task Force
on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide


Court Cases

Alaska
Sampson v. Alaska

"Assisted Suicide, Liberal Individualism, and Visceral Jurisprudence..." (Alaska Law Review, Vol 20, No. 2, 2003) Eric A. Johnson, Assistant Solicitor General, New York State Department of Law and former Chief Assistant Attorney General in Alaska Department of Law argues that a constitutional right to assisted suicide would have to be grounded on the detrimental assumption that disabilities make life less worthy of protection.

California
Wendland case

Florida
Krischer v. McIver (IAETF's amicus curiae Brief)
Text of Krischer v. McIver ruling (7/17/97)
Information about Schiavo case

Oregon
Oregon v. Ashcroft

U.S. Supreme Court
IAETF's amicus curiae brief in Vacco v. Quill in the U.S. Supreme Court (11/96)
Text of the Vacco v. Quill ruling (6/27/97)
IAETF's amicus curiae brief in Washington v. Glucksberg in the U.S. Supreme Court (11/96)
Text of the U.S. Supreme Court assisted suicide ruling (6/26/97)
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health (June 25, 1990)

9th Circuit Court
9th Circuit Decision in Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington (March 6, 1996)
IAETF's amicus curiae brief in Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington

Oregon
IAETF's amicus curiae brief in Lee v. Oregon
Lee v. The State of Oregon
Lee v. The State of Oregon
: Hogan Decision

Canadian Supreme Court
Rodriguez v. British Colombia (1993)
Regina v. Latimer (2001)

   


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