CA Court Rejects Group ’s Motion to Vacate Its Ruling Voiding Medical Aid-in-Dying Law Court to Hold Hearing on June 29 to Consider Separate Vacate Motion by Attorney General

A Riverside Superior Court rejected a motion filed by Compassion & Choices on behalf of a physician and two terminally ill adults urging the judge to “vacate” (i.e., cancel) his judgment last week invalidating the End of Life Option Act. However, the court judge, Daniel A. Ottolia, scheduled a hearing on June 29 to consider a separate motion by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to vacate the judgment. Similar to laws in six other states and Washington, D.C., the California law gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live the option to request prescription medication they can decide to take to end unbearable suffering and die peacefully in their sleep. The attorney general’s motion asks the court to vacate the judgment because it: ”...purports to enjoin the ‘State of California’ even though there are no allegations in Plaintiffs’ complaint concerning the ‘State of California’ as a subject of injunctive relief.” The motion also asks the court to vacate the judgment because “the Department of Public Health and the Attorney General of the State of California were deprived of their right to file objections to the Proposed Judgment prepared by Plaintiffs in this case before the judgment was entered.” “We are deeply disappointed that the court ruled against us, but we thank Attorney General Becerra for defending the law,” said Kevin Díaz, nati...
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