Bartling v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• describing “a clearly recognized legal right [in California] to control one’s own medical treatment,” and noting “a competent adult patient has the legal right to refuse medical treatment.”
• competent 70-year-old, seriously ill man had right to the removal of respirator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).