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DRLC Lawsuit Generates Media Attention Across the Country

February 28, 2014DRLC's recent lawsuit, co-counseling with the Law Office of John Burton, against the City of Hawthorne and the Hawthorne Police Department for unlawfully assaulting and brutally...

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NY Lawsuit Seeks to Expand Civil Rights of Dying

February 4, 2015The New York TimesA group of doctors and terminally ill patients are asking New York courts to declare that doctor-assisted suicide is legal and not covered by the state’s prohibition...

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New York Lawsuit Seeks to Legalize Doctor-Assisted Suicide

February 4, 2015ABC7A group of New York doctors and patients is continuing the death with dignity push publicized by Brittany Maynard, who lived in the East Bay.On Wednesday, those in New York are...

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Three Terminally Sick Patients Sue New York State over Assisted Suicide Law...

February 4, 2015New York Daily NewsSteve Goldenberg, Sara Myers and Eric Seiff are asking a judge to issue an order protecting their physicians from criminal prosecution if they give them ‘aid in...

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Advocates File Lawsuit Against NYS To Clarify Law On Doctor-Assisted Suicide

February 4, 2015CBS New YorkTwo patient advocacy groups have brought a lawsuit against New York State, asking the court to declare that doctor-assisted suicide is legal.Lead counsel and executive and...

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Lawsuit Looks to Legalize Aid in Dying in New York

February 4, 2015TimeLatest 'death wtih dignity' push following the death of Brittany Maynard.A group of patients and doctors filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking the New York Supreme Court to rule that aid...

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Lawsuit Asks Court to Allow Doctor-Assisted Suicide in New York

February 4, 2015ReutersA group of doctors and patients, some terminally ill, on Wednesday asked a New York court to rule that doctor-assisted suicide is not against state law.The lawsuit, filed against...

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Assisted suicide case filed in San Francisco Superior Court: Can right-to-die...

February 12, 2015AirTalkAirTalkThe latest attempt to shape the right-to-die debate has come in the form of a lawsuit filed by a cancer patient and five doctors with the San Francisco Superior Court.At...

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California cancer patient sues for right to doctor-assisted death

February 11, 2015ReutersReuters A 53-year-old California woman suffering from leukemia sued the state's attorney general and San Francisco's top prosecutor on Wednesday seeking the right for physicians...

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San Francisco Woman With Cancer Sues for the Right to Die On Her Own Terms

February 11, 2015SF WeeklySF Weekly A leukemia-afflicted San Francisco woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday in attempt to make it legal in California for doctors to assist terminally ill patients allowing...

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