Supreme Court of New Jersey· 9/4/1991

Lanzet v. Greenberg

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594 A.2d 1309
126 N.J. 168
1991 N.J. LEXIS 98

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stating that once an issue is contested and decided, the resolution achieved must be respected by all courts of equal or lower authority
defining, in respect of motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, that verdict holder is entitled to have facts viewed in the light most favorable to it and verdict holder is entitled to benefit of all reasonable inferences therefrom
plaintiff lapsed into persistent vegetative state when surgeons failed to terminate cataract surgery to attend to plaintiff's declining vital signs
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Judges: O'Hern, Pollock

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