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Litigation & Arbitration
May 18, 2023
State must pay fees of doctors who challenged assisted suicide law
U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha’s said doctors could not be punished for refusing to assist suicide but he left the rest of the law in place. A separate set of plaintiffs, representing a group of disabled people, sued last month to overturn the entire act.
A federal judge ruled that doctors can’t be forced to participate in California’s assisted suicide law — and awarded $300,000 in fees to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. The fee award is the third large one the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom has won from the state in the past week, totaling $1.7 million.
In his order issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha in Los Angeles permanently enjoined the state “from enforc...
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