NJ: Disability Groups File Amicus in Betancourt v. Trinitas (futility case)
…9, sought the protection of the courts. The trial court found, upon a three-day hearing record and following long-established New Jersey law, that Mr. Betancourt’s daughter should be appointed his guardian and surrogate decisionmaker for medical treatment, and that Trinitas and its personnel must follow her direction in exercising her father’s right to choose whether or not to continue treatment. Trinitas appealed, arguing that the doctors alone,…