Thor 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.

• noting that “patient autonomy and medical ethics are not reciprocals; one does not come at the expense of the other”
• holding, under California law, that quadriplegic prisoner could refuse surgical procedure that would insert feeding tube into his stomach where there was “no evidence that allowing him to do so undermines prison integrity or endangers the public”
• holding, under California law, that quadriplegic prisoner could refuse surgical procedure that would insert feeding tube into his stomach where there was “no evidence that allowing him to do so undermines prison integrity or endangers the public”
• upholding a prison inmate’s right to refuse or demand the withdrawal of medical treatment of any form in the absence of evidence demonstrating a threat to institutional security, public safety or prison officials
• a person's interest in personal autonomy and self-determination is a fundamentally commanding one, with well-established legal and philosophical underpinnings
• a person's interest in personal autonomy and self-determination is a fundamentally commanding one, with well-established legal and philosophical underpinnings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).