Legal Opinion
Quill v. Vacco
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 2, 1996No. 60, Docket 95-7028PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants Timothy E. Quill, Samuel C. Klagsbrun and Howard A. Gross-man appeal from a summary judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Griesa, Ch. J.) dismissing their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against defendants-appellees. The action was brought by plaintiffs-appellants, all of whom are physicians, to declare unconstitutional in part two New York statutes penalizing assistance in suicide. The physicians contend that each statute is invalid to the extent that it prohibits them from acceding to the requests of…
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