assisted-suicide
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5038 | Larry D. Ford v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | IFP | assisted-suicide emtala emtala-rights-1983 federal-rights fnhra medical-rights nursing-home-care nursing-home-reform-act section-1983 social-security-act spending-clause | 1. Whether the The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) gives rise to federal rights under § 1983? 2. Whether the Federal Nursin… |
| 22-6256 | Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation | I. When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new cri… |
| 19-7909 | Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 19-62 | Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement | Michelle Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter in connection with Conrad Roy III's suicide is unprecedented. Massachusetts is the only stat… |