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Physician Assisted Suicide: Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Rule Blocking Physician-Assisted Suicide — Gonzalez v. Oregon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2021

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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 2006

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References

1 2006 WL 89200, at *4 (2006).

2 Id.

3 Id. at *1.

4 L. Greenhouse, Justices Reject U.S. Bid to Block Assisted Suicide, N.Y. TIMES, Jan. 18, 2006, at A1.

5 Gonzales, 2006 WL 89200, at *4.

6 Id. at *5.

7 Id.

8 Henderson, S., Suicide Law Survives Challenge, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Jan. 18, 2006Google Scholar, at A06.

9 See Gonzales, 2006 WL 89200 at *7; see also id.

10 Gonzales, 2006 WL 89200, at *1.

11 Id. at *5.

12 Id.

13 Id. (citing 21 U.S.C. § 822(a)(2)(2005)).

14 Id. (citing 21 U.S.C. §§ 824(a)(4)(2005); 822(a)(2)).

15 Id. (citing 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a)(2005)).

16 Id. at *1; Greenhouse, supra note 4.

17 Id. at *7.

18 Id.; Henderson, supra note 8.

19 Gonzales, 2006 WL 89200 at *1, 7.

20 Id. at *1.

21 Id. at *7 (citing Oregon v. Ashcroft, 368 F.3d 1118, 1124-1125 (2004)).

22 Id.at *7 (citing Oregon v. Ashcroft, 368 F.3d at 1125-1129).

23 Id. at *8; Greenhouse, supra note 4.

24 Greenhouse, supra note 4.

25 Gonzales, 2006 WL 89200, at *8; Henderson, supra note 8.

26 Gonzales, 2006 WL 89200 at *8 (citing Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997)).

27 Id. (citing Auer, 519 U.S. at 461-463).

28 Id. at *2.

29 Id. at *9.

30 Id. at *2.

31 Id., at *9 (citing Thomas Jefferson Univ. v. Shalala, 512 U.S. 504, 512 (1994)).

32 Id. at *1-2 (citing Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837 (1984)).

33 Id. at *8 (citing Chevron, 467 U.S. at 842-845 (1984)).

34 Id. (citing U.S. v. Mead Corp., 533 U.S. 218, 226-227(2001)).

35 Id. at *10.

36 Id. (citing Mead, 533 U.S. at 226-227).

37 Id. at *2.

38 Id. at *10 (citing 21 U.S.C. §§ 821 (2005), 871(b)(2005)).

39 Id. at *11 (citing 21 U.S.C. § 802(5)(2005)).

40 Id. at *12.

41 Id. at *14.

42 Skidmore v. Swift, 323 U.S. 134, 140 (1944).

43 Id. at *8, *16 (citing Skidmore, 323 U.S. at 140).

44 Id. at *16.

45 Id. at *17.

46 Id. at *18 (citing 21 U.S.C. § 903 (2005)).

47 Id. at *18.

48 Id. at *19.

49 Id.

50 Id.

51 Id. at *20.

52 Id.

53 Id.

54 Id.

55 Id. at *21 (Scalia, J., dissenting).

56 Id.

57 Id. at *23 (Scalia, J., dissenting).

58 Id. at *24 (Scalia, J., dissenting).

59 Id. at *21 (Scalia, J., dissenting).

60 Id. at *27 (Scalia, J., dissenting).

61 Id. at *21 (Scalia, J., dissenting).

62 Id. at *34.

63 Id. (Thomas, J., dissenting) (citing Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. ----, ---- (2005)(slip op., at 24)).

64 Id. at *35 (Thomas, J., dissenting).

65 Greenhouse, supra note 2; D. Reinhard, Assisted Suicide, PORTLAND OREGONIAN, Jan. 22, 2006, at B05.

66 Henderson, supra note 8.

67 M. McGough, Oregon Suicide Statute Upheld, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, Jan. 18, 2006, at A1.

68 Greenhouse, supra note 4; Reinhard, supra note 65.

69 M. McGough, supra note 67.