Lovato v. District Court in & for Tenth Jud.

This is an original proceeding to review the order of the respondent district court directing the guardians ad litem of a child to execute a document authorizing the treating physician of the child and the hospital involved to remove all life support devices if in the doctor’s opinion the child was legally dead, as defined by the court. The court stayed execution of its order for 10 days in order to permit review of the decision. We issued a rule to show cause and a stay of execution of the order. Later, we discharged the rule and stay, with opinion to follow. This is the opinion.

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