Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Jan. 29, 2020
Judge: Doctors don’t have standing to challenge aided suicide law
A Riverside County judge said the plaintiffs have not been personally damaged by the enforcement of the law, nor do they have patients who have been or might be damaged.
A group of physicians do not have standing to challenge an elective-suicide provision which allows some terminally ill adult Californians to end their lives peacefully because they don't represent a patient who challenges the law, a Riverside County judge ruled.
Also the Legislature did not violate the state Constitution when it passed the End of Life Option Act during a special session, Superior Court Judge
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