Judge Overturns Assisted Suicide Law In California
Judge Daniel Ottolia ruled that the California legislature was hasty in passing the 2015 law, but he put the decision on hold for five days to give the state time to file an emergency appeal.
by Scott Neuman
May 16, 2018
2 minutes
A California law permitting physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients has been overturned by a judge who says it was passed unconstitutionally.
Judge Daniel Ottolia, of the Riverside County Superior Court, did not challenge the legally of the nearly three-year-old law, but
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