Washington v. Glucksberg, No. 96-110 (U.S. Supreme Court) (521 U.S. 702; 117 S.Ct. 2258) (June 26, 1997) (Justice Rehnquist)
In this case the Court upheld the State of Washington's statutory ban on assisted suicide as not violative of a person's substantive due process rights.
In arriving at its decision, the Court said that the first step in its analysis was to determine whether the claimed violation involves one of …
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