Legal update.
This column concisely reviews: significant legal developments concerning medical futility and assisted suicide; three late-2009, early 2010 court cases involving neonatal medical futility disputes; and a number of cases involving the criminal enforcement of assisted suicide laws, as well as recent court cases and legislation aimed to legalize assisted suicide.
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Thaddeus Mason
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Health Law Institute, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. tmpope@widener.edu
D002170:Canada; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D018447:Medical Futility / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013021:South Australia; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013557:Switzerland; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States