Legal Opinion
Oregon v. Ashcroft
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided April 17, 2002No. CIV. 01-1647-JOPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
ROBERT E. JONES, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
After surviving voter and legal challenges, the 1994 Oregon Death with Dignity Act (“Oregon Act”), O.R.S. 127.800 et seq, finally went into effect in October 1997. On November 6, 2001, with no advance warning to Oregon representatives, Attorney General John Ashcroft (herein referred to as “Ashcroft”) fired the first shot in the battle between the state of Oregon and the federal government over which government has the ultimate authority to decide what constitutes the legitimate practice of medicine, at least when schedule II…
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