Legal Opinion
Lee v. Oregon
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided December 27, 1994No. Civ. 94-6467-HOPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HOGAN, District Judge.
Before the court is Measure 16, passed by Oregon voters on November 8, 1994. This law, for the first time in the history of this country, authorizes physician assisted suicide for the terminally ill. The law invokes profound questions of constitutional dimension. The narrow issue presented at this juncture is whether those questions justify a brief delay in the implementation of this law. For the reasons set forth below, I find that the balancing of the important factors in this case merits a postponement of the implementation of the legislation until the…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Elrod v. BurnsSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Lee v. OregonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
- Lee v. OregonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
- Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts v. Philip Morris Inc.District Court, W.D. Washington · 1999
- Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts v. Philip Morris Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001
- Repp v. Anadarko Municipal HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994
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