In re P.V.W.

LEMMON, Justice.

This is an action for a declaratory judgment filed in juvenile court by the parents of a new born infant whose brain allegedly was severely and irreversibly damaged at birth and who has been in a comatose state since birth, with life sustained only by a mechanical ventilator. The attending neo-natalists and the hospital joined as petitioners, requesting that the juvenile court conduct an evidentiary hearing and declare that the child is in a “continued profound comatose state”, with “no reasonable medical chance of recovery” from that condition, so as to be governed by the…