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A group of five doctors and the American Academy of Medical Ethics (AAME) filed suit Wednesday challenging a physician-assisted suicide law. The End of Life Option Act would allow "terminally-ill" patients, an individual who, determined...

A long-awaited bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide was introduced before the Parliament of Canada on Thursday and is now awaiting passage through the House of Commons and the Senate. This development comes over a year after...

French lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill that will allow physicians to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death, opting not to extend the bill to cover physician-assisted suicide. Under the new law, patients will be...

The Court of Appeals of Quebec on Tuesday overturned a lower court injunction and ruled that Quebec's physician-assisted death law is not in conflict with any elements of the Quebec Criminal Code ....

JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Dore argues that a new law to legalize assisted suicide is a recipe for elder abuse and family trauma, and that it will encourage people with years to live to throw away their lives...California has passed...

California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday signed legislation that provides terminally ill patients the right to die. Brown stated, "he crux of the matter is whether the State of California should continue to make...

JURIST Guest Columnist James G. Hodge, Jr. of Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University discusses the significance of the outcome of Wollschlaeger II and its impact on the public's health... Without question significant access to guns...

The California State Legislature on Friday approved the End of Life Option Act by a vote of 23-14. The measure would allow doctors to provide terminally ill patients with and aid-in-dying drug that a patient takes...

JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres, of Ibero-American University, discusses the recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage in the US... The Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") issued its anticipated opinion on Obergefell v. Hodges . Regardless of...

California lawmakers on Tuesday ended their legislative efforts to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives in the state. The right-to-die bill had been amended several times over the past half year. The law...