Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical Aspects

See Cruzan v. Mouton, Estate No. CV384–9P (Circuit Ct., Jasper County, Mo., Probate Div.) (Dec. 14, 1990); Grant Edward R. Cleaver Cathleen A. , “A Line Less Reasonable”: Cruzan and the Looming Debate Over Active Euthanasia, 2 Md. J. Contemp. Leg. Issues 99, 147–152.

See Grant Cleaver , supra note 1, at 141–147.

70 N.J. 10, 355 A.2d 647, cert. denied, 429 U.S. 922 (1976).

Horan Dennis J. , The Quinlan Case, in Death, Dying & Euthanasia, 525 (University Publications of America, 1980); Ramsey Paul , Ethics at the Edges of Life, New Haven (Yale University Press, 1980).

Ramsey , supra note 4 at 294.

70 N.J. at 41, 355 A.2d at 664.

112 S.Ct. 1791 (1992).

112 S.Ct. at 2806.

In re Treatment and Care of Infant Doe, No. GU 8204–004A (Monroe County, Ind., April 12, 1984), reprinted at 52 Linacre Q. 72 (1985); State ex rel. Infant Doe v. Baker, No. 482 S 140 (Ind. Sup. Ct., May 27, 1982), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 961 (1983).

Child Abuse Amendments of 1984, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5101–05, 5111–5113, 5115 (1981 & Supp. 1987); 45 C.F.R. § 1340 (1989).

Weber v. Stony Brook Hospital, 60 N.Y. 2d 208, 456 N.E.2d 1186 (1983).

Kathleen Ken , “Baby Doe's Success: Progress Defying Prognosis,” Newsday , Dec. 7, 1987 at 1; See generally U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Medical Discrimination against Children with Disabilities, 1989, 39–46.

Rasmussen v. Fleming, 154 Ariz. 207, 741 P.2d 674 (1987); Barber v. Superior Court, 147 Cal. App.3d 1006, 195 Cal. Rptr. 484, 491 (1983); Bouvia v. Superior Court, 179 Cal. App.3d 1127, 225 Cal. Rptr. 297 (1986); In re Gardner, 534 A.2d 947 (Maine, 1987); Brophy v. New England Sinai Hospital, 398 Mass. 417, 497 N.E.2d 626 (1986); In re Jobes, 108 N.J. 394, 519 A.2d 434 (1987).

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dep't of Health, 110 S.Ct. 2841, 2852 (1990).

Cruzan, 110 S.Ct. at 2852.

Cruzan v. Harmon, 760 S.W.2d 408, 424 (Mo. 1988); aff'd, 110 S.Ct. 2841 (1990).

In re Guardianship of Wanglie, No. PX-91-283 (4th Dist., Minn., Probate Div., April 19, 1991).