Legal Opinion
Bouvia v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 16, 1986No. B019134PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1134Opinion
BEACH, J.
Petitioner, Elizabeth Bouvia, a patient in a public hospital, seeks the removal from her body of a nasogastric tube inserted and maintained against her will and without her consent by physicians who so placed it for the purpose of keeping her alive through involuntary forced feeding.
Petitioner has here filed a petition for writ of mandamus and other extraordinary relief after the trial court denied her a preliminary injunction requiring that the tube be removed and that the hospital and doctors be prohibited from using any other similar procedures. We issued an alternative…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- In Re QuinlanSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1976
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