Vacco v. Quill
Supreme Court of the United States (1996)

Cases

Page(s)

Bisenius v. Karns, 165 N.W. 2d 377,
appeal dismissed 365 U.S. 709 (1969).........8

Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington,
79 F.3d 790 (9th Cir. 1996) (en banc),
request for rehearing denied, 85 F.3d
1440 (9th Cir. June 12, 1996)........5, passim

Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington,
49 F.3d 585 (9th Cir. 1995)..................6

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of
Health, 497 U.S. 261 (1990)............2,20,21

In re Guardianship of Grant,
747 F.2d 445 (Wash. 1987)...................12

Hooper v. Bernalillo County Assessor,
472 U.S. 612 (1985).........................16

Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11
(1905).......................................8

Jeovahs Witnesses v. King County Hospital
Unit, 390 U.S. 598 (1968)....................8

People v. Kevorkian, 447 Mich. 436 (1994),
cert. denied 115 S. Ct. 1795 (1995)..........6

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern
Pennsylvania v. Casey,
505 U.S. 833 (1992)........................2,6

Quill v. Koppell,
870 F.Supp. 78 (S.D.N.Y. 1994)...............6

Quill v. Vacco,
80 F.3d 716 (2d Cir. 1996)...........5, passim

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).............8

Schloendorf v. Society of New York
Hospital, 211 N.Y. 125 (1914)...............18

State ex rel. Swann v. Pack,
527 S.W. 2d 99 (Tenn. 1975),
cert. denied 424 U.S. 954 (1976).............8

In re Storar, 52 N.Y. 363,
cert. denied 454 U.S. 858 (1981)............18

Webster v. Reproductive Health
Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989)................2

Matter of Westchester County Medical
Center, 72 N.Y. 2d 517 (1988)...............19

Statutes

N.Y. Public Health Law § 2982
(McKinney's 1993)...........................19

N.Y. Public Health Law § 2984
(McKinney's 1993)...........................20

Other Authorities

Alexander, Medical Science Under
Dictatorship, 241, New England Journal
of Medicine 40 (1949).......................22

Bleich, The Quinlan Case: A Jewish
Perspective, Jewish Bioethics 266
(Heb. Pub. Co. 1979).........................2

Binding & Hoche, Permission for the
Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life
(1920)......................................22

Burleigh, Death and Deliverance:
'Euthanasia' in Germany, 1940-45
(Cambridge University Press 1994)...........22

Carter, The Culture of Disbelief
236 (Basic Books 1993).......................6

Jakobovits, Regarding the Law Whether it
is Permitted to Hasten the End of a
Terminal Patient in Great Pain,
31 Ha-pardes 29 (1956).......................3

Mead, From Black and White Magic to
Modern Medicine, 22 Proceedings of the
Rudolf Virchow Medical Society 131 (1965)....3

New York State Task Force on Life and
the Law, When Death is Sought: Assisted
Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical
Context 121-34 (1994).....................8,21

Rosner, Modern Medicine and Jewish
Ethics, 225-39 Ktav Publishing House,
Yeshiva University Press (1986)..............3

Rules of the Supreme Court of the
United States Rule 37.1 (1990)...............7

Siegler & Weisbard, Against the Emerging
Stream: Should Fluids and Nutritional
Support be Discontinued?, 145 Archives
of Internal Medicine 130 (1985).............23

Tribe, American Constitutional Law
(2d Ed. 1988)............................13,14

Wertham, The German Euthanasia Program,
31 (1980)...................................24