VACCO V. QUILL
521 U.S. 793 (1997)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over a New York law that prohibits assisting in a
suicide.
FACTS: Quill (P) are New York physicians who assert that it is consistent with their
medical practice to prescribe lethal medication for mentally competent terminally ill
patients who are suffering great pain and desire a doctor's help in taking their own life.
They are banned from doing so by New York's law against assisting suicides. They contend
that this violates Equal Protection. The District Court disagreed; the resolution of this
issue is left to the normal democratic processes within the State. The Second Circuit
reversed; the law does not treat persons similarly situated as it allows terminally ill
patients on life support to remove that support but does not allow hastening of death by the
administration of prescribed drugs.
ISSUE:
RULE OF LAW:
HOLDING AND DECISION:
LEGAL ANALYSIS:
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